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 If we do in good earneſt believe, that Sacrament was inſtituted by our Lord in remembrance of his dying love, we cannot but have  very high value and eſteem for it upon that account. Me thinks ſo often as we read the Inſtitution of it, theſe words of our dear Lord,  this in remembrance of me, and conſider what who ſaid them did for us, this dying charge  our beſt friend ſhould ſtick with us, and  a ſtrong impreſſion upon our minds:  if we add to theſe, thoſe other words of his,  long before his death, Greater love than this  no man, that a man lay down his life for his friends; ye are my friends, if ye do whatſoever I command you. It is a wonderful love which he hath expreſſed to us, and worthy to be had in perpetual. And all that he expects from by way of thankful acknowledgment, is to celebrate the remembrance of it by the frequent  of this bleſſed Sacrament. And this charge, laid upon us by him, who laid down his life for us, lay no obligation upon us to  ſolemn remembrance of that unparallel'd kindneſs, which is the fountain of ſo many bleſſings and benefits to us? It is a great ſign we no great ſenſe of the benefit, when we are ſo  of our Benefactour, as to forget  days without number.

The obligation he hath laid upon us, is ſo great, not only beyond all requital, but  all expreſſion; that if he had  us ſome very grievous thing, we ought with  the readineſs and cheerfulneſs in the world  have done it; how much more when he  impoſed upon us ſo eaſie a commandment  thing of no burthen, but of immenſe