A monitor for communicants. An essay to excite and assist religious approaches to the…

The common Apology made for this Omission is; I am afraid; I shall come Unworthily; and by doing so, I shall Eat and Drink Judgment unto my self. But verily, This will imply something that will hardly be capable of an Apology. Have you done, all that you can do, that you may not come Unworthily? If you have not, then you Stay away Unworthily. Tis ⟨p. 6⟩a Sin to Come Unworthily. But, Sirs, tis a Sin to stay away Unworthily. Suppose you had that Message by an infallible Hand brought unto you; Set all things in Order, for thou hast not one Month more to Live in the World; A Month shall devour thee! What would be your Course in this case? Doubtless you would immediately Set apart a portion of Time for it; And Confess and Bewail all your Sins, and fly to the Blood of […] Saviour for the Pardon of them, & earnestly declare, that you Look upon every one of them, with all Abhorrence of Soul; and give up your selves unto God, with very serious Resolutions to Acknowledge Him in all your […]: And with unspeakable Agony beg the Spirit of Grace to take Possession of you. Have you done thus? If you have done this, you may with an Encouraged Soul, come on unto the Table of the Lord. Tho' you are not fully Sure, of your Sincerity, yet you may come, and may Do it in Faith; Inasmuch as you have no Evidence remaining, to Proclaim and Pronounce a Predominant Hypocrisy: You have now no Evident ⟨p. 7⟩Bar to your doing of your Duty; and so you may and must go on with your Duty. But if all this be still Undone, why do you continue in such an unaccountable Stupidity and Security! Why do you leave your Interior and Eternal State, at such desperate Uncertainty? How can you bear thus to Sleep on the Top of a Mast in the Midst of the Sea? In Hourly Danger, for ought you know, of a Damnation that Slumbereth not. Your First Work must be immediately to Do, what is to be done, by every man, who expects to Die, & Propounds a Death without a Sting; To Lay hold on Everlasting Life, in the Methods of a Repenting Faith immediately. Till This be done, you not only Live in your Sins, but also with a […] Madness run the Extreme Hazard of Dying in them.

The common Apology made for this Omission is; I am afraid; I shall come Unworthily; and by doing so, I shall Eat and Drink Judgment unto my self. But verily, This will imply something that will hardly be capable of an Apology. Have you done, all that you can do, that you may not come Unworthily? If you have not, then you Stay away Unworthily. Tis