A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

But alas! how few do live as becometh those that have been at the Table of the Lord! If you did but listen to their discourse as soon as they are gone from this Ordinance, you should hear some talking presently of the World, or of something impertinent to what ⟨p. 151⟩•hey have been about: If you did but follow them from the Lords Table to their •wn, what unsavoury words should you •ear from them! How frothy and vain i• their discourse! And if you observe their actions, even upon the same day, and sometimes in the same hour that they have been eating and drinking at the Table of the Lord, you would perceive that they have presently forgot where they have been, and what they have been doing, and the obligations that th•re was laid upon them to ••ve better. You should see one drunk with passion, another filled with carnal mirth, another careless in the after duties of the Sabbath: trace them in their lives in the week following, and you shall see them as worldly, as vain, as negligent as others that never had been at such an Ordinance.

But alas! how few do live as becometh those that have been at the Table of the Lord! If you did but listen to their discourse as soon as they are gone from this Ordinance, you should hear some talking presently of the World, or of something impertinent to what ⟨p. 151⟩•hey have been about: If you did but follow them from the Lords Table to their •wn, what unsavoury words should you •ear from them! How frothy and vain i• their discourse! And if you observe their actions, even upon the same day, and sometimes in the same hour that they have been eating and drinking at the Table of the Lord, you would perceive that they have presen•ly forgot where they have been, and what they have been doing, and the obligations that thre was laid upon them to ve better. You should see one drunk with passion, another filled with carnal mirth, another careless in the after duties of the abbath: trace them in their lives in the week following, and you shall see them as worldly, as vain, as negligent as others that never had been at such an Ordinance.