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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	heart_n	lord_n	soul_n	3,745	5	4.9226	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41720	The communicants guide directing the younger sort, which have never yet received, and the elder, and ignorant sort, which have hitherto received unworthily, how they may receive the sacrament of the Lords Supper to their souls comfort together with a treatise of divine truths, collected out of ancient and moderne divines / by R. Gove ...	Gove, R. (Richard), 1587-1668.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1452; ESTC R17638	26,688	79

he must have a care also to have it in a convenient frame during the time of the whole action For though a Man have bestowed much paines with his heart before his comming yet if there be not a care of due behaviour in the action all his former paines may be lost See Prov. 23. 1. second Epist. of Iohn v. 8. Mat. 22. 11. EXPRESSION XIIII Of this That it is not enough to come to the Sacrament and to see what is there done unlesse wee can by Faith applie them to our selves and get the efficacy and vertue of Christs Death to become ours A Conduite we know is full of Water now a Man that would fill his Vessell with the Water thereof must bring it to the Conduite to the Cocke and set it there but yet that is not enough nay if that be all and he doe no more he may goe home againe with an empty Vessell therefore the Man that would fill his Vessell when hee hath brought it to the Conduite and set it under the Cock doth also turne the Cock and then the Water runnes forth and fills his Vessell So 't is in the Sacrament Christ is the Conduite of all grace and spirituall good and he that would be f●lled must come to him His Ordinances the Word and Sacrament they are the Cocks of this Conduite so that a man that would be filled with grace must not onely goe to Christ in his Ordinances and bring his Vessell to these Cocks but when he hath so done he must turne them too and let them runne into his Vessell and this onely can a mans faith doe by applying of Christ and what he hath done for mans salvation to a mans selfe in particular See Luke 1. 17. Iohn 20. 28. Gal. 2. 20. EXPRESSION XV Of the same A Child we know may see and looke upon the Mothers Breasts may handle them kisse them and play with them but all this while the Child is never the fuller Therefore the Child when it would be satisfied it layes its mouth to the Breast gets the Nipple into his mouth and then suckes and drawes with all the strength and might it hath and so fetcheth forth the Milk out of the Mothers Breast So must it be done in this case of the Sacrament Men may come to the Sacrament and there gaze upon the Elements and eate and drinke them and yet not receive the sweete of the Ordinance but if they would have the milke out of this breast they must fall to sucking and to drawing with all their might and strength And this doe men doe when in the use of it they set their faith on worke which sucks vertue out of the Sacrament and from Christ in it mortifying vertue to kill their lusts healing vertue to cure their soules and quickning vertue to enable them to the duties and actions of spirituall life A Catalogue of certaine grosse Ignorances touching the Sacrament of the Lords Supper yet remaining and reigning in the hearts and mindes of the vulgar sort of Communicants in most places and Parishes of this Land Purposely Set downe that such ignorant Soules may see their Errours and learne to amend them The I. Ignorance Touching Preparation THe Preparation especially of the younger sort is to put on their best dresse their siner apparell and to be a little braver when they come to the Sacrament than at other times But for a Spirituall preparation of the heart to fit it for so holy a duty and service that is a thing that is never once looked after nor thought upon The II. Ignorance Touching their demeanour at the time of Receiving IT is pittifull to behold the demeanour of the ordinary sort of people at the Sacrament they come thither they know not wherefore and they doe there they know not what they know not which way to looke or turne themselves about any holy Meditations Many times their mindes are like a Clock that is over-wound above his ordinary pitch and so stands still their thoughts are amazed at the height of these mysteries and for the time they are like a block thinking nothing at all or else their thoughts fall flat on the Earth to base and bodily things Yea some are so wonderfully simple as to imagine they come thither for a draught of sweete Wine and a morsell of finer Bread Or at the best they raise their thoughts no higher than the Communion Table thinking that if they have received the outward Elements in a reverent manner behaved themselves decently during that action forborne their worldly businesse before and after tempered their tongues from all uncivill speech and demeaned themselves mannerly for that day then that they have done a right acceptable piece of Service to God The which stupidity of theirs cannot but be much commiserated of those unto whom it is given to know any thing concerning the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God The III. Ignorance Touching their comming at certaine times to Receive though never so unpreparedly MAny have a conceipt that if they come at such and such times what ever their lives be yet it skilleth not the very comming at such times is a disposition sufficient for the Service they come about But let such men know that at what time soever they come if they come not preparedly be the time never so solemne yet shall they instead of a blessing meete with Gods curse and heavy indignation See Iob 20. 23. Psal. 78. 29 30 31. Psal. 69. 22. but especially 1 Cor. 11. 27. 29 30. IV. Ignorance Touching their good meanings as if that were a sufficient Preparation IGnorant persons use to pleade for themselves that 't is true they have not the knowledge and understanding that others have and cannot answer as others doe yet they hope they have as good meanings and come with as good minds as the best But poore soules how miserably doe they delude themselves For ignorant mindes cannot be good minds neither can such mindes have good meanings for without knowledge the minde is not good Pro. 19. 2. And the minde being not good how can the receiving of such a one but be an abomination to God See Pro. 21. 27. And therefore let such poore ignorant Soules looke to themselves and for all their good mindes and meanings labour to get some competent measure of the knowledge of God and Christ before they offer to meddle with this holy Ordinance of God And especially let such looke to themselves that have the meanes and may be taught and instructed but yet in a wilfulnesse and Rebellion of Spirit will not be taught nor instructed that they may be fitted before they come to the Sacrament but will continue in their ignorance and wilfully come to the Sacrament therein For what can such expect but that God should say to them as he doth to others of the like kinde Psal. 50. 16. 17. What hast thou to doe that thou shouldst take my Covenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest