. A treatise of the two sacraments of the gospell : baptisme and the Supper of the Lord ... n a little, and thou fliak bee ruler over much. Excellentis that of our Saviour I^hft 7.17. If any man doe the will ofthe Father,hc (hall know of the dodrine, more and more: andif a man keepe my word, I wiil come nnto him, and acquaintwithhitn. Looke to thy obeying heart, and that hatha pro-mifc of knowing, yea and that experimentally, which isbetter than all rules or confedures. Agame, if thy know-ledge be found, though weake, yet let this bee no let of re-ceiving tife Sapper: for that fer^es for the w

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. A treatise of the two sacraments of the gospell : baptisme and the Supper of the Lord ... n a little, and thou fliak bee ruler over much. Excellentis that of our Saviour I^hft 7.17. If any man doe the will ofthe Father, hc (hall know of the dodrine, more and more: andif a man keepe my word, I wiil come nnto him, and acquaintwithhitn. Looke to thy obeying heart, and that hatha pro-mifc of knowing, yea and that experimentally, which isbetter than all rules or confedures. Agame, if thy know-ledge be found, though weake, yet let this bee no let of re-ceiving tife Sapper: for that fer^es for the weake , both inknowledge and in all other gifts.Chrift Icfus is given of theFa-thprjtobe unto thee wifedj;)me afwell as righteoufnefft:; come to Part.J* BAptiffneAndtheSufftf$f the Lord. 8i te his fcaft, and it % a good time to askc it , • for him hath theFather fcakd in the Sacrament to be thy Prophet, and he will lohn 6, 27, give thte of his fulnelTc, even knowledge for knowledge, 3fea>richly, and without upbraiding. And tor this grace of Sacra- ^^^ ^*^*mcntall knowledge, thus much*. Ch AP. V. of SacrAmerttali faith, md the trUUof it. Take it for granted, that the wife Reader will re« Pntraacemember that which was before faid, that faith is * not required as all other graces are, that is, onelyfor the better receiving of the Sacrament. Butthat it is above all other the moft effentiall grace, and the immediate inftrument of receiving that which the Sa-crament exhibits : By how much the more diligence ought tobe ufcd by a Chriftian Communicant, that this grace be tried tdbe foundly wrought in him, and revived at the Sacrament, This caution being premifed, I come to the matter itfelfc. For the better conceiving whereof, what this triall of faith . in the Sacrament imports, I thinke it meete, by fome fteps to ^{^^q^ j^^, ground this point in the Readers minde, aRd to lay downcthefc mcdf^* ***three things: i. That the Lord offers the good things whichhe beftowcsiipon bis faithfull on