Secondly, For want of Examination after the Sacrament, you will be kept from After-humiliation, and Repentance for your sins committed at the Table of the Lord. If you did review and look back upon the frame of your heart, and find you have miscarried in your work and management of your Duty, you should see what cause you have of lying low before the Lord for so great a Sin, as to get no good by such an Ordinance, that tends so much to promote the work of Grace in the hearts of them that come worthily to the same. Your Heart, when the Minister broke the Bread, was not broken for your Sin; When you tool the bread, your heart was dull and dead, and did not reach forth the hand of Faith, to lay hold upon Christ and his Benefits, and apply them to your self, and •o did play the Hypocrite before God & your fellow Communicants: When the Wine was poured forth, and you saw how Christ did shed his blood for sinners, you could not drop a Tear for your sins that caused ⟨p. 134⟩it; or if you did, it was not from a heart sensible of your Sin, or of Gods love unto your Soul; when you took the Cup and drank thereof, you did not remember Christ as you should have done: And, while you were present at this Table, your mind wa• filled with distracting Thoughts, and you thoughts were wandering when they should have been fixed on God and Christ: And how shall you be humbled for this, if you do not reflect that you are guilty of suc• Sins? And how shall you confess this before the Lord upon your Knees, when you d• not afterwards consider how it was with you at that time? And how great a Sin is this, and how bad is your heart, neither to be affected at the Table of the Lord, not to be afflicted in your Soul after you are gone, that it was not so with you! This was your Sin, while you were there tha• you got no good thereby: and this is also your Sin, that you do not bewail it when you come away? Whereas it should be lamented from one Sacrament to another, that your heart was indeed so bad and out of frame, when it should have been Delighting in God, and Loving of God, and Sorrowing for your Sin.
Secondly, For want of Examination after the Sacrament, you will be kept from After-humiliation, and Repentance for your sins committed at the Table of the Lord. If you did review and look back upon the frame of your heart, and find you have miscarried in your work and management of your Duty, you should see what cause you have of lying low before the Lord for so great a Sin, as to get no good by such an Ordinance, that tends so much to promote the work of Grace in the hearts of them that come worthily to the same. Your Heart, when the Minister broke the Bread, was not brok•n for your Sin; When you tool the bread, your heart was dull and dead, and did not reach forth the hand of Faith, to lay hold upon Christ and his Benefits, and apply them to your self, and •o did play the Hypocrite before God & your fellow Communicants: When the Wine was poured forth, and you saw how Ch•ist did shed his blood for sinners, you could not drop a Tear for your sins that caused ⟨p. 134⟩it; or if you did, it was not from a heart sensible of your Sin, or of Gods love unto your Soul; when you took the Cup and drank thereof, you did not remember Christ as you should have done: And, while you were present at this Table, your mind wa• filled with distracting Thoughts, and you thoughts were wandring when they should have been fixed on God and Christ: And how shall you be humbled for this, if you do not reflect that you are guilty of suc• Sins? And how shall you confess this before the Lord upon your Knees, when you d• not afterwards consider how it was with you at that time? And how great a Sin is this, and how bad is your heart, neither to be affected at the Table of the Lord, not to be afflicted in your Soul after you are gone, that it was not so with you! This was your Sin, while you were there tha• you got no good thereby: and this is also your Sin, that you do not bewail it when you come away? Whereas it should be lamented from one Sacrament to another, that your heart was indeed so bad and out of frame, when it should have been Delighting in God, and Loving of God, and Sorrowing for your Sin.
