A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

1. After you have been at the Table of the Lord, you must make Conscience of abstaining from those sins that there you did bewail, that there you sorrowed for: To weep for sin at the Sacrament, and to indulge it when you come awa•, is great Hypocrisy. Will you (while there) seem to be grieved for your si•, and yet afterwards be unwilling to forsake it? Did you resolve against it, or did you not? I• you did not, the Lord forgive you, your sin is great, & your love to sin was great, when you would not so much as purpose to leave your sin, nor resolve against it; no, not when you saw what Christ ha•h suffered for sin; if •ou did, then do as you did purpose, and resolve: Especially watch most against that sin that you have oftenest found prevailing ⟨p. 156⟩against you, that your heart is most read• to yield unto, and your Conscience […] most reproach you for when you were […] the Table of the Lord. Your endeavour must be against all sin, but chiefly against your chiefest sin. O• never smile upon your sin which you see hath put to death you• Lord the Prince of Life!

1. After you have been at the Table of the Lord, you must make Conscience of abstaining from those sins that there you did bewail, that there you sorrowed for: To weep for sin at the Sacrament, and to indulge it when you come awa•, is great Hypocrisie. Will you (while there) seem to be grieved for your si•, and yet afterwards be unwilling to forsake it? Did you resolve against it, or did you not? I• you did not, the Lord forgive you, your sin is great, & your love to sin was great, when you would not so much as purpose to leave your sin, nor resolve against it; no, not when you saw what Ch•ist ha•h suffred for sin; if ou did, then do as you did purpose, and resolve: Especially watch most against that sin that you have oftenst found prevailing