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Perſwaſive

To frequent

COMMUNION.


I Cor. II. 26, 27, 28.

For as oft as ye eat this bread, and drunk this cup, ye do ſhew the Lord's death till he come.
Wherefore whoſoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, is guilty of the body and bloud of the Lord.
But let a man examine himſelf, and ſo let him of that bread, and drink of that cup.

MY deſign in this Argument is, from the conſideration of the Nature of this Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and of the perpetual Uſe of it to the end of the world, to awaken men to a ſenſe of their Duty, and the great obligation which lyes upon them to the more frequent receiving of it. And there is the greater need to make men ſenſible of their duty in this particular, becauſe

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