A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

Is there so many precious Excellencies […] this Blood of Christ? Oh sinner, wretch, and fool that I was, that did prefer any thing, ever• thing so long before it, and have so often trampled it under foot.

Is there so many precious Excellencies 〈…〉 this Blood of Christ? Oh sinner, wretch, and fool that I was, that did prefer any thing, ever• thing so long before it, and have so often trampled it under foot.

But must I joy and sorrow too? Will no• either sorrow keep me from rejoicing, or rejoicing prevent my sorrowing? No, both these may be, both these must be: this mixture, medley of affection, doth well become […] Believer at the Lords Table. You may mourn that your sins did put Christ to death, and y•• you may rejoice that Christ hath, would die for your Sins.

But must I joy and sorrow too? Will no• either sorrow keep me from rejoycing, or rejoycing prevent my sorrowing? No, both these may be, both these must be: this mixture, medly of affection, doth well become 〈…〉 Believer at the Lords Table. You may mourn that your sins did put Christ to death, and y•• you may rejoyce that Christ hath, would die for your Sins.

VI. When you thus consider the Blood of Christ, then let your Soul hate and abhor your sin that was the cause of its effusion, and would have hindered (if mercy had not prevented) its effectual, timely application. Oh that now your heart might rise against your sins, and that you might hate them while you live, with a perfect and implacable hatred! You do no love to see the Knife that killed your Friend and will you love to think upon that Sin th killed your Lord? Or will you ever do […] with delight? Oh, hadst thou any Love unto […] Lord, Oh my Soul! thou couldst not then […] hate thy Sin. Oh now my Soul! be wrought […] to a heightened resolution, with greatest indignation and abhorrence to cast away thy Sins. Now, Lord, I see that thou hast loved me, and I will