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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36365	A familiar guide to the right and profitable receiving of the Lord's Supper wherein also the way and method of our salvation is briefly and plainly declar'd / by Theophilus Dorrington.	Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.	1695 (1695)	Wing D1936; ESTC R12791	66,224	212

the Day of Redemption Let all Men know that the wilfull neglect and refusal of this Sacrament is a damnable Sin of Omission and puts every Man that is guilty of it out of a state of Grace and Salvation And they that neglect to come to this Ordinance when 't is prepar'd for them may very justly fear that God will not bless any other to them For what ground have they to think he will bless one of his Ordinances to them while they neglect another or let them obtain by Prayer and Hearing the Word what he has Commanded them to use this Sacrament for too that they might obtain it And then they that live in neglect of this are in great danger never to be saved by any other means of Salvation Men may perhaps think themselves very good if they keep their Church attend the publick Prayers and sometimes hear sometimes sleep away a Sermon But if they neglect this Sacrament they must expect God will reject all their other performances He that breaks the Law in one point the Scripture says is guilty of all And then he that neglects his Obedience to any one of God's Commands knowingly and wilfully will be lookt upon and treated by Almighty God as if he fulfill'd none of them Oh that Men would seriously lay these things to Heart and consider the terrible Danger which they put themselves into by this Neglect Let us be assur'd that what-ever it is that hinders us from preparing our selves and coming to this Sacrament it is a Snare and Temptation of the Devil the great Adversary of our Souls Who knows the great and saving Efficacy of this Sacrament and therefore would not have Men use it Who knows that if we seriously and frequently attend upon this Means of our Salvation he must despair of ever accomplishing our Destruction Oh let us defeat the malicious design of our Enemy and resist all Suggestions that would beat us off from this practice Let us consider how kindly and lovingly the Lord Jesus the great Lover of Souls invites us to it Come unto me says he all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest Let us not give him cause to complain of us and say Ye will not come unto me that ye might have Life Let us consider what noble and inviting Entertainment he has provided for us at this Heavenly Feast He designs to entertain us with assurances of his Love with the Divine Influences of his Holy Spirit with the joyfull pledges and fore-tasts of Heaven and is this what is but fit to be despised Consider at what a costly rate and price He has provided us this Entertainment Even at the price of his own cruel Sufferings and bitter Death and of his most precious Blood If we love our Souls then and have any concern for their Salvation let us prepare our selves and come to this Sacrament as often as we can If we have any true Love to the Lord Jesus our best Friend our kind Saviour who lov'd us and laid down his Life for us Let us earnestly desire and seek the Purchases of his Blood and seek to be made partakers of them in that way in which he has appointed us to do so as we shall certainly do if we really and sincerely desire them I must not insist too long upon this matter If what I have said cannot persuade any unwilling Soul to prepare and come to this Sacrament I would wish that I could but obtain so much of such an one as to read and consider a short Discourse to this purpose written by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury call'd A Persuasive to frequent Communion There he should see the most subtle Insinuations which the Adversary can suggest to with-hold him from his Interest and Duty in this Case utterly baffled and confuted And as there is reason to believe that Discourse has prevail'd upon many so there is reason to expect both from that success and from the strength of it that none can consider it well but it must prevail with him SECT XII Of Fitness to come to this Sacrament BUT the common pretence and excuse that hinders Men from coming to this Sacrament is That they are not fit for it And they are afraid of Eating and Drinking unworthily and of incurring their own Damnation thereby It is therefore the design of this little Book to show what Fitness is requisite for a worthy and profitable Receiving of this Sacrament and to help Men to that Fitness by the Blessing of God which they shall not fail to obtain of Him by Earnest Prayer and the serious and frequent perusal of what is here presented And since in Celebrating this Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ we are to renew and confirm this Covenant which we have been speaking of between God and us This will abundantly direct us what Preparation and Fitness is requisite that we may be meet Partakers of it to our profit and comfort And it is necessary that we know what the Terms and Conditions of it are which God requires to be perform'd on our parts and what it offers and promises on God's part This matter therefore has been already for that reason distinctly and somewhat particularly represented In the next place we must unfeignedly and sincerely chuse and lay hold on this Covenant It must be the hearty desire the sincere purpose of our Souls to be engag'd in it To be bound in these happy Bonds which set our Souls at liberty from the Bonds of Sin and Death We must desire the Blessings and seek the Favours of it and readily accept and submit to the Terms and Conditions and declare that we will expect our Salvation upon those Terms And also we must certainly be very thankfull to the Son of God at this Memorial of his Death since He became the Mediatour of this Covenant and has by his Death procur'd the favour of new Terms of Salvation and the Offer of Peace and Reconcilement with God upon so gentle and easie terms And he who has that Knowledge of this Covenant and this good disposition of Mind thereupon that Man is fit for this Sacrament and if he comes he shall be a welcome Guest at the Lord's Table Now as I have represented the Knowledge necessary to this I shall go on to represent also more particularly the good Disposition of Mind which we ought to come with And I shall represent this in such a way as will be fit to form it in Men where it is not or to excite and actuate it and set it into Exercise where it is I shall represent it in the following Acts or Exercises of it Which you may take notice are a lively Description of a very meet Receiver of this Sacrament So that he who would become fit for this Sacrament must read and meditate on those things till he finds those Dispositions and Affections rais'd in him which are therein