their Covenant with God, and Love to all the Saints. 175. Queft. What is the Duty of Chriftians after they have received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper? Anfw. The Duty of Chriftians after they have received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, is ferioufly to confider how they have behaved themfelves therein, and with what Succefs b; if they find Quickning and Comfort, to blefs God for it, beg the Continuance of it, watch against Relaples, ful Fer. so. s. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, faying, Come and let us join our felves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten. Pfalra so. s. Gather my faints together unto me: thofe that have made a covenant with me by facrifice. Acts 2. 42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apoftles do&trine and fellow fhip, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. 175. b Pfalm 28. 7. The Lord is my ftrength and my fhield, my heart trufted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my fong will I praise him. Pfalm 85. 8. I will hear what God the Lord will fpeak: for he will fpeak peace unto his people, and to his faints: but let them not turn again to folly. 1 Cor. 11. 17. Now in this that I declare unto you, I praife you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse. v. 30. For this caufe many are weak and fickly among you, and many fleep. v. 31. For if we would judge our felves, we fhould not be judged. days with great gladnefs: and the Levites, and the priests praised the Lord day by day, finging with loud inftruments unto the Lord, &c. Acts 2. 42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. v. 46. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from houfe to houfe, did eat their meat with gladnefs and fingleness of heart, v. 47. Praifing God, and having favour with all the people-- : d Pfalm 36. 10 O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. Cant. 3. 4. It was but a little that I paffed from them, but I found him whom my foul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mothers house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 1 Chron. 29.18. O Lord God of Abraham, Ifaac, and Ifrael our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee. e I Cor. 1o. 3. And did all eat the fame spiritual meat; v. 4. And did all fulfil their Vows, and encourage themselves to a frequent Attendance on that Ordinance : But if they find no present Benefit, more exactly to review their Preparation to and Carriage at the Sacrament; in both which if they can approve themfelves to God and their own Confciences, they are to wait for the Fruit of it in due time : But if they fee all drink the same spiritual drink ;. eth, faying, Open to me, my fifter, (for they drank of that fpiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Chrift.) v. 5. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. v. 12. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed left he fall.. Pfalm 50. 14. Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the most High. 8 1 Cor. 11. 25. After the fame manner alfo he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood: this do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me. v. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew the Lords death till he come. Acts 2. 42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apoftles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayérs. v. 46. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from houfe to houfe, did eat their meat with glad ness and singleness of heart, b Cant. 5. 1. I am come into my garden, my fifter,my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my fpice, I have eaten my hony-comb with my hony, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, yea, drink abundantly, Obeloved. v. 2. fleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knock my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. v. 3. I have put off my coat, how fhall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how fhall I defile them? v. 4. My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. v.5. I rofe up to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped with myrth, and my fingers with fweet-smelling myrrh,upon the handles of the lock. v. 6. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my foul failed when he fpake: I fought him, but I could not find him, I called him, but he gave me no answer. 1 Pfalm 123. 1. Unto thee lift! up mine eyes, O thou that dwelleft in the heavens. v. 2. Behold, as the eyes of fervants look unto the haad of their mafters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her miftrefs: fo our eyes wait upon the Lord our God,until that he have mercy upon us. Psalm 42.5. Why art thou caft down, O my foul and why art thou difquieted in me? hope thou in God, for I fhall yer praise him for the help of his countenance. v. 8. Yet the Lord will command his loving kinduefs in the day-time, and in the night his fong ball be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my! ee they have failed in either, they are to be humled *, and to attend upon it afterward with more Care and Diligence'. 176. Queft. Wherein do the Sacraments of Baptifm nd the Lord's Supper agree? Anfw. The Sacraments of Baptifm and the Lord's upper agree, In that the Author of both is God m; he Spiritual Part of both is Chrift and his Benefits " "; both y life. Pfalm 43. 3. O fend out wrought in you, yea, what clearing of your felves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement defire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! in all things ye have approved your felves to be clear in this matter. I Chron. 15. 12. And David faid unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: fanctify your felves both ye and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Ifrael, unto, the place that I have prepared for it. v. 13. For because ye did it not at the firft, the Loid our God made a breach upon us, for that we fought him not after the due order. v. 14. So the priests and Levites fanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Ifrael. 2 Chrau. 30. 18. For a multitude the people, even many of Ephraand Manaffeh, Iffachar, and Zelun,had not cleansed themselves, t did they eat the paffover, other fe than it was written: But Heze ah prayed for them, faying, The od Lord pardon every one v. 19. 176. Mat. 28.19. Go ye there hat prepareth his heart to feek fore and teach all nations, baptizing od, the Lord God of his fathers, them in the name of the Father, and ough he be not cleanfed according of the Son, and of the holy Ghoft the purification of the fanctuary. 1 Cor. 11. 23. For I have received of ai.1.16. Wash ye,make you clean, the Lord, that which I alfo delivered; it away the evil of your doings, unto you, That the Lord Jefus, the om before mine eyes; ceafe to do fame night in which he was betrayed, il. v. 18. Come now, and let us took bread. afon together, faith the Lord 1ough your fins be as scarlet, they all be as white as fnow; though, hey be red like crimson, they fhall eas wool.. Rom. 6. 3. Know yenot, that fo many of us as were baptized into Jefus Chrift, were baptized into his death v. 4. Therefore we are bu ried with him by baptifm into death: that like as Chrift was raised up from the dead by the glory of his Father, even both are Seals of the fame Covenant °, are to be dispensed by Minifters of the Gospel and by none other P, and to be continued in the Church of Chriff until his Second Coming". 177. Quest. Wherein do the Sacraments of Bapt and the Lord's Supper differ? Anfw. The Sacraments of Baptifm and the Lord's Supper differ, In that Baptifm is to be adminiftred but once, with Water, to be a Sign and Seal of our Regeneration and Ingrafting into Chrift, and that even fo we also fhould walk in newnefs of life. 1 Cor. 10. 16. The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift? 0 Rom. 4. 11. And he received the fign of circumcifion, a feal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the Father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcifed; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Compared with Col. 2. 12. Buried with him in baptifm, wherein alfo ye are rifen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raifed him from the dead. Mat. 26. 27. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, faying, Drink ye all of it: v.28. For this is my blood of the new teftament which is fhed for many for the remiffion of fins. even tizing them in the name of the Fa ther, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghoft. I Cor. 11. 23. For l have received of the Lord that which alfo I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jefus the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread. 1(e 4. 1. Let a man fo account of us, of the minifters of Chrift, and fterards of the mysteries of God. Hi.. 5. 4. And no man taketh this ho nour unto himself, but he that is cal led of God, as was Aaron. 9 Mat, 28. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghoff.: v. 20. Teaching them to obferve a things whatfoever I have comman ded you: and lo, I am with you si way even unto the end of the world. Amen. 1 Cor. II. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew the Lords death t he come." 177. Mat. 3.11. I indeed bag P John 1.33. And I knew him not: tize you with water unto repentance but he that fent me to baptize with but he that cometh after me, is water, the fame faid unto me, Upon mightier than I, whose thoes I am whom thou shalt fee the Spirit de- not worthy to bear: he fhall baptize fcending and remaining on him, you with the holy Ghoft, and u the fame is he which baptizeth with fire. Tit. 3. 5. Not by works of the holy Ghoft. Mat. 28. 19. Go ye righteousness, which we have done. therefore and teach all nations,bap ba wen to Infants ; whereas the Lord's Supper is to adminiftred often, in the Elements of Bread nd Wine, to represent and exhibite Chrift as Spitual Nourishment to the Soul, and to confirm r Continuance and Growth in him, and that ly to fuch as are of Years and Ability to examine emfelves w. 178. Queft. What is Prayer? Anfw. Prayer is an Offering up of our Defires to God, in the Name of Chrift, by the Help according to his mercy he faved y the washing of regeneration, renewing of the holy Ghost. 3. 27. For as many of you as been baptized into Chrift, have on Chrift. of was betrayed took bread: v. 24. And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. v. 25. After the fame manner alfo Gen. 17. 7. And I will establish he took the cup, when he had fupcovenant between me and thee, ped, faying, This cup is the new thy feed after thee, in their ge- teftament in my blood: this do ye, tions, for an everlafting cove- as oft as ye drink it,in remembrance t to be a God unto thee, and of me. v. 26. For as often as ye hy feed after thee. v. 9. And eat this bread, and drink this cup, I said unto Abraham, Thoufhalt ye do fhew the Lords death till he p my covenant therefore, thou, come. thy feed after thee, in their getions. Acts 2. 38. Then Peaid unto them, Repent, and be tized every one of you in the e of Jefus Chrift, for the refion of fins, and ye thall receive gift of the holy Ghost. v. 39. the promise is unto you, and to rchildren, and to all that are aoff, even as many as the Lord God fhall call. 1 Cor. 7. 14. For unbelieving husband is fanctifiby the wife, and the unbelieving is fanctified by the husband: were your children unclean ; but are they holy. 1 Cor. 11. 23. For I have reed of the Lord, that which alfo livered unto you, That the Lord 18, the fame night in which he 1 Cor. 1o. 16. The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? wi Cor. 11. 28. But let a man ex amine himself, and fo let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cups v. 29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not difcerning the Lords body. 178. Pfalm 62.8. Truft in him at all times; ye people, pour out your hearts before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. y John 16. 23. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing: verily veBb sily |