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 unto judgment: Where the Apoſtle plainly both what was the crime of unworthy  and the puniſhment of it. Their crime was, irreverent and diſorderly participation of the ; and their puniſhment was, thoſe temporal judgements which God inflicted upon  for this their contempt of the Sacrament.

Now this being, I think, very plain; we proportionably to underſtand the precept of  of our ſelves, before we eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. But let a man examine ; that is, conſider well with himſelf what a Action he is going about, and what behaviour becomes him, when he is celebrating this  inſtituted by our Lord in memorial of  body and

bloud, that is of his death and paſſion; And if heretofore he hath been guilty of any and irreverence (ſuch as the Apoſtle  taxeth them withall) let him cenſure and  himſelf for it, be ſenſible of and ſorry for  fault, and be carefull to avoid it for the future; and having thus Examined himſelf, let him  that bread, and drink of that cup. This, I think, is the plain ſenſe of the Apoſtle's diſcourſe; that if we attend to the ſcope and  of it, it cannot well have any other meaning.

But ſome will ſay, is this all the preparation is required to our worthy receiving of the Sacrament, that we take care not to come drunk to  nor to be guilty of any irreverence and  in the celebration of it? I anſwer in ſhort, this the particular unworthineſs with which the  taxeth the Corinthians, and which he warns  to amend, as they deſire to eſcape the  of God, ſuch as they had already felt for this irreverent carriage of theirs, ſo unſuitable to the