folfc,inriching exAminAtion. '1 .u --~------------~-------------- though there bee diftracHons, ·tremblings and . · .feares on his owne fide; and for all Satans envies · ~ -- ; and oppofitionscont-raryt~ t~is happineffe, hee · trands as free from the gutfnneffe and curfe of · Gnne in Gods account and divine imputation, as · Ada1»before his fall, as any Saint or Ang~ll in Heaven, nay, as Chtifr Jefus himfelfe, bleffed for· ever, in an holy andfober fenfe, for he is alively ~~ member of his myfiicall body i; hee is wafht as cleane from finne, as his blond can doe it ; he is as jafras liis:righteoufneffe can make him. · If thou come then to this holy Table, with a true, broke-n,penitent~humble,repenting& pre- _ ' paredhear~ thop. maifr be as fully and certainly affured of the enjoyment and poffeffion ·of Chrifr, and all the glorious benefits of his meri- ". torioris paffion, as if his pretious bl,oud did even nowgufh out afreili upon thy polluted foule; and that now with his glorious hand hee fhould reach unto thee through the clouds, .the corn- · 1 forts of heaven, and acrowfle of immortality. ~,~ · !hird.Iy,. the o!lliffion and neglect of thjs du- Re.rf. • ty by whtchwe mtght become worthyrece~vers, . 3 brings !Jpon u~ lament~bie· and w.ofuU danger ' , and damnation, as appeares by this place. For he j I that rafhly and rudely rufhes upon this holymy"'" frerie, and fo receives unworthily, is guiltyof ' thebody and bloud of the Lord, a horrible guilt, a fearfuU.i:fnpiety. To be guilty of wkked .and , finfilll bloud, ·is able for ever after to make the : .fioutefr heart toquake and tre1J1hle, and tomelt .~ · .away with feares arid faintings, like·the leaves of , _ 1 _ C 2 the . _ '
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