John  vi.  53—56.
Gal.  ii.  20.
1  Cor.  X.  1(1.
xi.  26,  27.
Ezek.  Iii.  18,  1!).
1  Cor.  xi  29.  28.
2  Cor.  xiii.  5.
1  Cor.  xi.  31.
Jer.  xiii.  20.
John  xiii.  10,  11.
Rev.  xix.  8.
Isa.lxi.  10.
Matt.  xxii.  1 1 —

13.
1  Cor.  X.  21.
John  vi.  35.  &c.
I  Cor.  X.  16.
ii.  27,  28.
D


EARLY   beloved,  on


-  (lay
next  I  puipose,  through  God's
assistance,  to  administer  to  all  such  as
shall  be  religiously  and  devoutly  dis-
posed the  most  comfortable  Sacrament
of  the  Body  and  Blood  of  Christ,  to
be  by  them  received  in  remembrance
of  his  meritorious  Cross  and  Passion,
whereby  alone  we  obtain  remission  of
our  sins,  and  are  made  partakers  of  the
Kingdom  of  heaven.  Wherefore  it  is
our  duty  to  render  most  humble  and
hearty  thanks  to  Almighty  God  our
heavenly  Father,  for  that  he  hath  given
his  Son  our  Saviour  Jesus  Christ,  not
only  to  die  for  us,  but  also  to  be  our
spiritual  food  and  sustenanc'e  in  that
holy  Sacrament.  Which  being  so
divine  and  comfortable  a  thing  to
them  who  receive  it  worthily,  and  so


dangerous  to  them  that  will  presume
to  receive  it  unworthily;  my  duty  is
to  exhort  you  in  the  mean  season  to
consider  the  dignity  of  that  holy  mys-
teiy,  and  the  great  peril  of  the  un-
worthy receiving  thereof ;  and  so  to
search  and  examine  j'our  own  con-
sciences, (and  that  not  lightly,  and
after  the  manner  of  dissemblers  with
God  ;  but  so)  that  ye  may  come  holy
and  clean  to  such  a  heavenly  feast,  in
the  marriage-garment  required  by  God
in  holy  Scripture,  and  be  received  as
worthy  partakers  of  that  holy  Table.
