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 but that they ſhould be affrighted from their, and from that wicked courſe of life, which is habitual indiſpoſition & unworthineſs. St. Paul, (as I obſerved before) truly repreſents, and  much agg avatsaggravats [sic] the danger of the unworthy  of this Sacrament; but he did not deter  Corinthians from it, becauſe they had ſometimes  to it without due reverence, but exhorts them  amend what had been amiſs, & to come better  and diſpoſed for the future. And after that terrible declaration in the Text,  ſhal eat this bread, and drink this cup of the  unworthily, is guilty of the body and bloud of  Lord, he does not add, therefore let Chriſtians  heed of coming to the Sacrament, but let them  prepared and with due reverence, not as to  meal, but to a ſolemn participation of  body & bloud of Chriſt; But let a man examine, & ſo let him eat of that bread & drink of that cup. , if this be a good reaſon to abſtain from the , for fear of performing ſo ſacred an  an undue manner, it were beſt for a bad man  aſide all Religion, and to give over the  of all the duties of piety, of prayer, of  and hearing the Word God; becauſe there is a  danger in the unworthy and  uſe of any of theſe. The prayer of the  (that is, of one that reſolves to continue ſo) is an to the Lord. And our Saviour gives us ſame caution concerning hearing the Word of  take heed how ye hear. And St. Paul tells us, thoſe who are not reformed by the doctrine  Goſpel, it is the ſavour of death, that is, deadly  damnable to ſuch perſons.

But now will any man from hence argue, that it for a wicked man not to pray, not to hear