unto judgment: Where the Apoſtle plainly ⟨ſhews⟩ both what was the crime of unworthy ⟨receiving⟩ and the puniſhment of it. Their crime was, ⟨their⟩ irreverent and diſorderly participation of the ⟨Sacrament⟩; and their puniſhment was, thoſe temporal judgements which God inflicted upon ⟨them⟩ for this their contempt of the Sacrament.
Now this being, I think, very plain; we ⟨are⟩ proportionably to underſtand the precept of ⟨examination⟩ of our ſelves, before we eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. But let a man examine ⟨himſelf⟩; that is, conſider well with himſelf what a ⟨ſacred⟩ Action he is going about, and what behaviour becomes him, when he is celebrating this ⟨Sacrament⟩ inſtituted by our Lord in memorial of ⟨his⟩ body and
bloud, that is of his death and paſſion; And if heretofore he hath been guilty of any ⟨diſorder⟩ and irreverence (ſuch as the Apoſtle ⟨here⟩ taxeth them withall) let him cenſure and ⟨Judge⟩ himſelf for it, be ſenſible of and ſorry for ⟨his⟩ fault, and be carefull to avoid it for the future; and having thus Examined himſelf, let him ⟨eat of⟩ that bread, and drink of that cup. This, I think, is the plain ſenſe of the Apoſtle's diſcourſe; ⟨and⟩ that if we attend to the ſcope and ⟨circumſtances⟩ of it, it cannot well have any other meaning.
But ſome will ſay, is this all the preparation ⟨that⟩ is required to our worthy receiving of the Sacrament, that we take care not to come drunk to ⟨it,⟩ nor to be guilty of any irreverence and ⟨diſorder⟩ in the celebration of it? I anſwer in ſhort, this ⟨was⟩ the particular unworthineſs with which the ⟨Apoſtle⟩ taxeth the Corinthians, and which he warns ⟨them⟩ to amend, as they deſire to eſcape the ⟨Judgments⟩ of God, ſuch as they had already felt for this irreverent carriage of theirs, ſo unſuitable to the ⟨holy⟩
