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 he ſpeaks of their actual fitneſs and worthineſs at that time when they came to receive the Supper. And for the clearing of this matter, muſt conſider what it was that gave occaſion  this diſcourſe. At the 20th verſe of this Chapter ſharply reproves their irreverent and  carriage at the Lord's Supper. They came to very diſorderly, one before another. It was the of Chriſtians to meet at their Feaſt of Charity, in which they did communicate with great  and temperance; and when that was, they celebrated the Sacrament of the Lord's. Now among the Corinthians this order broken; the rich met and excluded the poor  this common feaſt: And after an irregular  (one before another eating his own ſupper as  came) they went to the Sacrament in great ; One was hungry, having eaten nothing  all; Others were drunk, having eaten intemperately; and the poor were deſpiſed and neglected. the Apoſtle condemns as a great profanation that ſolemn Inſtiſution of the Sacrament, at  participation whereof they behaved themſelves with as little reverence, as if they had been met  a common Supper or Feaſt. And this he calls,  diſcerning the Lord's body, making so difference in their behaviour between the Sacrament and common meal; which ir everent and contemptuous carriage of theirs he calls, eating and drinking unworthily; for which he pronounceth them guilty of the body and blood of the Lord,  were repreſented and commemorated in their taking of that bread and drinking of that cup. which irreverent and contemptuous uſage of body and bloud of our Lord, he tells them  they did incur the judgment of God; which he