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 have ſome good effect upon them for a time: it did not make men good, yet it would  them reſolve to be ſo, & leave ſome good  and impreſſions upon their minds.

So that I doubt not but it hath been a thing very bad conſequence, to diſcourage men  much from the Sacrament, as the way hath  of late years; and that many men who were  ſome kind of check before, ſince they  been driven away from the Sacrament,  quite let looſe the reigns, and proſtituted themſelves to all manner of impiety and vice. And among the many ill effects of our paſt, this is none of the leaſt; That in congregations of this Kingdom, Chriſtians  generally diſuſed and deterred from the , upon a pretence that they were unfit  it; and being ſo, they muſt neceſſarily incur  danger of unworthy receiving; and  they had better wholly to abſtain from it. which it came to paſs, that in very many this great and Solemn Inſtitution of the  Religion was almoſt quite forgotten, as  had been no part of it, and the  of Chriſt's death even loſt among : So that many Congregations in England might  have taken up the complaint of the  at our Saviour's ſepulchre, They have taken  our Lord, and we know not were they have laid 

But ſurely men did not well conſider what did, nor what the conſequence of it would be,  they did ſo earneſtly diſſwade men from the, 'Tis true indeed the danger of  receiving is great; but the proper inference  concluſion from hence is not, that men ſhould  this conſideration be deterred from the