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When he hath only ſaid to us; Eat, O friends; and Drink, O beloved? When he only invites us to his table, to the beſt and moſt delicious feaſt that we can partake of on this ſide heaven?

If we ſeriouſly believe the great bleſſings which are there exhibited to us, & ready to be conferred upon us, we ſhould be ſo far from neglecting them, that we ſhould heartily thank God for every opportunity he offers to us of being made partakers of ſuch benefits. When ſuch a price is but into our hands ſhal we want hearts to make uſe of it? Me thinks we ſhould long withſtand (who ſaw but the ſhadow of theſe bleſſings) to be ſatisfied with the good things of God's houſe, and to draw near his altar; and ſhould cry out with him, O when ſhal I come and appear before thee! my ſoul longeth, yea even fainteth for the courts of the Lord, and my fleſh crieth out for the living God. And if we had a juſt eſteem of things, we ſhould account it the greateſt infelicity and judgment in the world to be debarred of this priviledge, which yet we do deliberately and frequently deprive our ſelves of.

We exclaim againſt the Church of Rome with great impatience, and with a very juſt indignation, for robbing the People of half of this bleſſed Sacrament, and taking from them the cup of bleſſing, the cup of ſalvation; and yet we can patiently endure for ſome moneths, nay years, to exclude our ſelves wholly from it. If no ſuch great benefits and bleſſings belong to it, why do we complain of them for hindring us of any part of it? But if there do, why do we by our own neglect deprive our ſelves of the whole?

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