A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

Eighthly, For want of this reflection after the Sacrament, you will be fuller of doubts, and more empty of comforts, than else you would be. Sometimes God did so powerfully work upon your heart when you were at his Table, in drawing forth your love to him, your hatred to, and sorrow for your sins, that you could not deny that you had grace: But at another time you might lose the sense of this, when it might not be so with you, and then the Devil doth assault you, to persuade you that you have no grace, because now you do not feel the workings of it; but if you would reflect how it was with you such a time at the Sacrament, you might repel this temptation: Tho' I do not now find the lively workings of my love to God, yet at such a time in the Sacrament ⟨p. 138⟩I did; though now I do not find my heart to b•e•k, but is dull and ou• of frame, yet such a day in the Sacrament• did: Th•• I found my sins my burden, and the brea••ing of my heart: Then I did feel my heart to burn in love to God and Christ; and this will help to resolve your present doubts, and to expel your present fears, and to resist his temptation of the Devil: But if you do not reflect, you might lose so good an evidence of the truth o• your grace.

Eighthly, For want of this reflection after the Sacrament, you will be fuller of d•ubts, and more empty of comforts, than else you would be. Sometimes God did so powerfully work upon your heart when you were at his Table, in drawing forth your love to him, your hatred to, and sorrow for your sins, that you could not deny that you had grace: But at another time you might lose the sense of this, when it might not be so with you, and then the Devil doth assault you, to perswade you that you have no grac•, because now you do not feel the workings of it; but if you would reflect how it was with you such a time at the Sacrament, you might repel this temptation: Tho' I do not now find the lively workings of my love to God, yet at such a time in the Sacrament