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the facrament engage you to carry lovingly and affectionately to all his people. Henceforth behave yourselves as fervants of the fame family, branches of the fame vine, members of the fame body, and children of the fame Father.

DIRECT. XI. Study to fhine in the graces of Mecknefs, Patience, and Forgiveness of Injuries.

THIS is the way to make you like your glorious Redeemer and Pattern; and this is the way to adorn the profeffion of religion, and to make it amiable in the eyes of strangers. And furely all thofe who have been fharers of God's infinite mercy and goodness in the facrament, will come away from it with a difpofition to bear injuries, and a readinefs to forgive thofe that do them

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DIRECT. XII. Labour to keep up conftant longings for Communion Occafions here below, and for the eternal Supper of the Lamb above.

SURELY thofe who have met with Chrift in this ordinance will be breathing for further difcoveries of his fweetnefs and beauty. You ought to be faying, like Mofes, when he came down from the mount, “I befeech thee, Lord, fhew me thy glory:" Let me have new manifestations of thy excellency, fresh intimations of thy love, and clearer difcoveries of thy will. Oh, when will the opportunity return? When fhall I come and appear before God? When fhall I again fee his power and glory in the fanctuary? When thall I tafte his love and goodness again in the facrament? When fhall I again behold his well covered table, fit down thereat with his children, and be fatisfied as with marrow and fatnefs?

But feeing this lower table is transient and uncertain, look for one to come which is fixed and abiding. "Yet a little while, (faith Chrift) and I will fee you again, and I will come and receive you to myfelf." O believer,

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your lovely bridegroom will keep his word and his day, he will come and marry you to himself for ever: Therefore ever ftand upon the watch-tower, wifhfully looking for his appearance; never flack thy watch, nor let thy expectation cool, till he come and take thee home to himfelf, and fet you down at the higher table, where he fhall for ever lay afide his vail, and his amiable countenance never more be clouded with frowns; where you fhall not have a facramental but a beatifical vifion; where you fhall not remember him, but behold him as he is; where you fhall feed on him without figns, and fee him without a vail; where all your forrows fhall be turned into joys, where, for every reproach you met with in God's fervice, you shall reap eternal honour; for every hour of forrow, you shall enjoy endlefs ages of comfort. "Make hafte, my beloved, let the day break and the fhadows fly away. Even fo, Lord Jefus, come quickly." Take me to that place where myfteries fhall be turned into revelations, faith into vifion, hope into fruition, efpoufals into embraces, forrowful fighs into nuptial fongs, drops of tears into-rivers of pleasures, tranfient glances into the radiant and direct beams of the fun of righteoufnefs, fhort taftes into everlasting feafting and fulness. How fmall are the comforts of the lower table, if compared with thefe of the higher table? How dark are the discoveries believers have here, if compared with thefe bright manifeftations a bove? But, because I have infifted on this head formerly, I fhall add no more here upon it; but wish that we may come at length experimentally to know the dif ference, to our everlasting comfort.

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

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Objections made against this duty anfwered,

Containing Directions how to prepare for a CommunionSabbath.

Direct. I. Concerning the nature, ends, and uses of the Lord's Supper, and of the work of communicating,

Direct. II. Concerning the neceffity of communicating, and the fin of neglecting this duty,

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communic ting.

Direct. III. Concerning the neceffity of frequent

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Object ons against frequency in it answered,

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Direct. IV. Concerning the neceffity of folemn preparation before our partaking,

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thy communicating,

Direct. V. Concerning habitual and actual preparation, 361 Direct. VI. Concerning the fin and danger of unwor

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1. Of the examination of our state,

Direct. VIII. Concerning felf-examination before partaking,

Direct. Vil. Concerning fequeftrating ourselves from the world before partaking,

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Direct. IX. Concerning humiliation and mourning
for fin before partaking,

Direct. X. Concerning our clofing with Chrift by
faith before partaking,

Direct. XI. Concerning the duty of perfonal cove-
nanting,

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Advices to young communicants thereanent,
Direct. XII. Concerning our cleanfing hearts and
hands, and turning to the Lord, before partaking, 450
Direc. XIII. Concerning our meditating upon the
death and fufferings of Chrift before partaking,
Direct. XIV. Concerning Prayer, and what we
fhould pray for, before communicating,
Direct. XV. Concerning deniedness to all our pre-
parations,

CHAP. II.

Containing Directions for the right fpending of a Com-
munion-Sabbath, when it is come.

Direct. I. Concerning our rifing in the morning that
day,

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Direct. II. How to get faith and love quickened by
viewing the fufferings and love of Chrift,

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And by looking to Chrift in all his offices,
Direct. III. How to get our fouls in a fuitable frame
for approaching to this holy table,
Direct. IV. Concerning our ejaculations by the way, 490

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Directions concerning our carriage when the time of
receiving doth approach,

Scrupulous communicants refolved,

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Ejaculations proper when we go forward to the table, 493

Directions proper for Communicants when they are fit-
ting at the Lord's Table.

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Suitable fubjects for our meditation while we fit
there,

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The graces needful, and how they are to be exercif-
ed at the Lord's table,

How to employ our thoughts when we fee the facra-
mental elements and actions, and hear the words
of inflitution,

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