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 He finds no other fault with them  preſent in this matter, though any other ſort  irreverence will proportionably expoſe men  the like puniſhment. He ſays nothing here of habitual preparation, by the ſincere  and reſolution of a good life, anſwerable to  rules of the Chriſtian Religion; this we may  he took for granted. However, it the Sacrament to more than it does Prayer  any other religious Duty. Not but that it is very that none but thoſe who do heartily embrace  Chriſtian Religion, and are ſincerely reſolved  frame their lives according to the holy rules  precepts of it, are fit to communicat in this  acknowledgment and profeſſion of at. So it is a practice very much to be countenanced  encouraged, becauſe it is of great uſe, for  by way of preparation foe the Sacrament to examine themſelves in a larger ſenſe than  all probability the Apoſtle here intended; I mean, to examine our paſt lives and the actions  them, in order to a ſincere repentance of all  errours and miſcarriages, and to fix us in the  purpoſe and reſolution of a better life; particularly, when we expect to have the forgiveneſs of our ſins ſealed to us, we ſhould lay aſide all  and thoughts of revenge and heartily forgive thoſe that have offended us, and put in practice that univerſal love and charity which is repreſented to us by this holy Communion. And to purpoſe we are earneſtly exhorted in the publick office of the Communion by way of due preparation and diſpoſition for it, to repent as  of our ſins paſt, to amend our lives, and to be in perfect charity with all men, that ſo we may be meet partakers of those holy myſteries.