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 And I do on purpoſe ſpeak thus cautiouſly in matter, becauſe ſome pious perſons do  err on the ſtricter hand, & are a little ſuperſtitious on that ſide in ſo much that unleſs  gain ſo much time to ſet a part for a ſolemn, they will refrain from the Sacrament at that time, though otherwiſe they be habitually prepared: This I doubt not proceeds from  mind; but as the Apoſtle ſays in another  about the Sacrament, ''Shall I praiſe them in ? I praiſe them not''. For provided there no wilfull neglect of due preparation, it is  better to come ſo prepared as we can, nay  it is our duty ſo to to do, rather than to  upon this punctilio. For when all is done, beſt preparation for the Sacrament, is the  care and endeavour of a good life; and  that is thus prepared may receive at any time  opportunity is offered, though he had no  foreſight of that opportunity. And I in that caſe ſuch a one ſhall do much  to receive than to refrain, becauſe he is  prepared for the Sacrament, though he  no time to make ſuch actual  as he deſired: And if this were not allowable, how could Miniſters communicat with ſick  at all times, or perſwade others to do  many times upon very ſhort and ſudden ?

And indeed we cannot imagine that the Chriſtians, who received the Sacrament ſo, that for ought appears to the  they Judged it as eſſential and neceſſary  of their publick worſhip as any other  of it whatſoever, even as their Hymns and , and reading and interpreting of the