A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

H. I would advise you to take heed, that you do not conclude, that you have no benefit at all because you have not so much as you expected and desired, or so much as you s•e other Christians to have; or that you have it not in that particular or kind that you looked for; or though you did not sensibly perceive it in the very act of receiving.

D. But what may be the cause that I found no more of God in the time of this Ordinance.

H. It may be you were too slight in your Preparations for this Duty; or if enlarged in them you trusted too much to them, and less to Christ than you should have done; or were not watchful in the time of the Ordinance, or do too much favour some peculiar sin; and God with-holds what you expected, that you might mend that with which he is offended.

H. It may be you were too slight in your Preparations for this Duty; or if enlarged in them you trusted too much to them, and less to Ch•ist than you should have done; or were not watchful in the time of the Ordinance, or do too much favour some peculiar sin; and God with-holds what you expected, that you might mend that with which he is offended.