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The inexcusableness of neglecting the worship of God, under a pretence of being in…
The inexcusableness of neglecting the worship of God, under a pretence of being in an unconverted condition. Showed in a sermon preached at Northampton, the 17th. Decemb. 1707. being the time of the sitting of the Inferior Court. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton. ; Imprimatur, J. Dudley.The inexcusableness of neglecting the worship of God, under a pretence of being in an unconverted condition. Shewed in a sermon preached at Northampton, the 17th. Decemb. 1707. being the time of the sitting of the Inferiour Court. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton. ; Imprimatur, J. Dudley.
printed by B. Green. Sold by Samuel Phillips, 1708
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5. It is from the misunderstanding of one Scripture principally, that these are afraid to come to the Lord's Supper: viz. 1 Cor. 11. There are two expressions in that Chapter that they are terrified with, One that He that eateth & drinketh unworthily, is guilty of the body & blood of the Lord: that is of profaning the Ordinance. And they are said to eat & drink damnation or judgment to themselves: but this unworthy eating is doing of it in a rude manner, as v. 21. For in eating every one taketh before others his own Supper, and one is hungry & another ⟨p. 23⟩is drunken. And he explains himself, v. 29. Not discerning the Lords body; that is, not discerning that bread from common bread. Another expression is, Let a man examine himself & so let him eat, v. 28. But it is not said, Let him examine himself whether he should eat or forbear, but let him Examine himself, & so let him eat. The meaning is, that he must come solemnly to that Ordinance, Examining what need he has of it.
5. It is from the misunderstanding of one Scripture principally, that these are afraid to come to the LordsSupper: viz. 1 Cor. 11. There are two expressions in that Chapter that they are terrifyed with, One that He that eateth & drinketh unworthily, is guilty of the body & blood of the Lord: that is of prophaning the Ordinance. And they are said to eat & drink damnation or judgment to themselves: but this unworthy eating is doing of it in a rude manner, as v. 21. For in eating every one taketh before others his own Supper, and one is hungry & another ⟨p. 23⟩is drunken. And he explains himself, v. 29. Not discerning the Lords body; that is, not discorning that bread from common bread. Another expression is, Let a man examine himself & so let him eat, v. 28. But it is not said, Let him examine himself whether he should eat or forbear, but let him Examine himself, & so let him eat. The meaning is, that he must come solemnly to that Ordinance, Examining what need he has of it.