A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

Quest. 6 What if you were to go from the Sacramental board to Gods Bar, from his Table to his Tribunal, what preparation would you make then? If God should from Heaven tell you, The same day you do receive, the same day I will judge you, the same day I will require an account of you, how you came, and why you came, and whether you did eat in faith, and drink in faith, and do all as one that did believe a Judgment, and a life to come; why this may be your case, and thus God might ⟨p. 67⟩deal with you, and how if he should, after you have come unpreparedly?

Quest. 7. What if you had been then present under the Cross of Christ, when he was crucified, and seen his Wounds, and heard his dying groans, and were then to come to commemorate this Death of Christ, what preparation would you have made then? What if you had seen your Lord sweating drops of Blood in a cold season, and seen the Thorns upon his head, the Spear thrust into his side, that you might have a window to look into his heart, to see how he hath loved you, and seen the Nails in his hands and feet; and were, after such a sight as this, to come unto this Table, with what affection would you then come? Why, all this is really represented to you in this Ordinance, and should be as certainly believed, as if you had with your eyes beheld it done. What affections do some discover in beholding the execution of a common Malefactor? And shall not we before-hand endeavour to raise our affections when we are to come to see the Crucifixion of our dearest Lord?

Quest. 7. What if you had been then present under the Cross of Christ, when he was crucified, and seen his Wounds, and heard his dying groans, and were then to come to commemorate this Death of Christ, what preparation would you have made then? What if you had seen your Lord sweating drops of Blood in a cold season, and seen the Thorns upon his head, the Spear thrust into his side, that you might have a window to look into his heart, to see how he hath loved you, and seen the Nails in his hands and feet; and were, after such a sight as this, to come unto this Table, with what aff•ction would you then come? Why, all this is really represented to you in this Ordinance, and should be as certainly believed, as if you had with your eyes beheld it done. What affections do some discover in beholding the execution of a common Malefactor? And shall not we before-hand endeavour to raise our affections when we are to come to see the Crucifixion of our dearest Lord?