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Q. 175. What is the duty of Christians, after they have received the facrament of the Lord's fupper?

4. The duty of Chriftians, after they have received the facrament of the Lord's fupper, is feriously to confider how they have behaved themselves therein, and with what fuccefs b; if they find quickening and comfort, to blefs God for it c, beg the continuance of it d, watch against relapfes e, fulfil their vows f, and encourage themfelves to a frequent attendance on that ordinance g: but,

Aedfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

175. 6 Pfal. xxviii. 7. The Lord is my ftrength and my fhield, my heart trusted in him, and I am am helped therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my fong will I praife him. Pfal. lxxxv. 8. I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his faints: but let them not turn again to folly. 1 Cor. xi. 17. Now in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.. v. 30. For this cause many are weak and fickly among you, and may fleep. v. 31. For if we would judge ourselves, we fhould not be judged.

€ 2 Chron. xxx. 21. 22. 23. 25. 26. v. 21. And the children of If rael that were prefent at Jerufalem, kept the feast of unleavened bread feven days with great gladness: and the Levites, and the priests praifed the Lord day by day, finging with loud infruments unto the Lord, &c. Acts ii. 42. And they Continued ftedfaftly in the apoftles doctrine and fellowship, and in Breaking of bread, and in prayers. 46. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from houfe to houfe, id eat their meat with gladness

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and fingleness of heart, v. 47. Praifing God, and having favour with all the people.

d Pfal. xxxvi. 10. O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteoufnefs to the upright in heart. Cant. iii. 4. It was but a little that I paffed from them, but I found him whom my foul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's houfe, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 1 Chron. xxix. 18. O Lord God of Abraham, Ifaac, and of Ifrael our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee.

e1 Cor. x. 3. And did all eat the fame fpiritual meat; v. 4. And did all drink the fame fpiritual drink: (for they drank of that fpiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Chrift. V. 5. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Wherefore let him that thinketh he flandeth, take heed left he fall. f Pfal. 1. 14. Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the moft High.

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g 1 Cor. xi. 25. After the fame manner alfo he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, This cup in the New Teftament in my blood:

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but if they find no prefent benefit, more exactly to review their preparation to, and carriage at, the facrament b; in both which if they can approve themselves to God and their own confciences, they are to wait for the fruit of it in due time i: but, if they fee they have failed in either, they are to be humbled k, and to attend

this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. v. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew the Lords death till he come. Acts ii. 42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apoftles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and

in prayers. v. 46. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from houfe to houfe, did eat their meat with gladness and fingleness of heart. b*Cant. v. I. I am come into my garden, my fifter, my fpoufe; I have gathered my myrrh with my fpice, I have eaten my honey-comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, yea drink abundantly, O beloved. v. 2. 1 fleep, but my heart waketh it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, faying, Open to me, my fifter, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. v. 3. I have put off my coat, how shall I it on? I have washed my feet, how fhall I defile them? v. 4. My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. v. 5. I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with fweet-fmelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. v. 6. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone my foul failed when he fpake I fought him, but I

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could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no anfwer.

¿ Pfal. cxxiii.' 1. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwelleft in the heavens. ** v. 2. Behold, as the eyes of fervants look unto the hand of their mafters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress: fo our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us. Pfal. xlii. 5. Why art thou caft down, Omy foul? and why art thou difquieted in me? hope thou in God, for I fhall yet praife him for the help of his countenance. v. 8. Yet the Lord will command his loving kindnefs in the day time, and in the night his fong fhall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. Pfal. xliii. 3. O fend out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. v. 4. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praife thee, O God, my God. V. 5. Why art thou caft down, O my foul: and why art thou difquieted within me? hope in God, for I shall yet praife him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

k 2 Chron. xxx. 18. For a mul titude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manaffeh, Iffachar, and Zebulun, had not cleanfed themselves, yet did they eat the paffover, otherwife than it was written: but Hezekiah prayed for them, faying, The good Lord par

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attend upon it afterward with more care and diligence /. Q. 176. Wherein do the facraments of baptifm and the Lord's fupper agree?

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A. The facraments of baptifm and the Lord's fupper agree, in that the author of both is God m; the fpiritual part of both is Chrift and his benefits n, both are feals of the fame covenant o, are to be difpenfed by ministers of

don every one V. 19. That prepareth his heart to feek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleanfed according to the purification of the fanctuary. If. i. 16. Wash ye, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes, ceafe to do evil. v. 18. Come now, and let us reafon together, faith the Lord: though your fins be as fcarlet, they fhall be as white as fnow; though they be red like crimson, they fhall be as wool.

2 Cor. vii. 11. For behold, this Self fame thing that ye forrowed after a godly fort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement defire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! in all things ye have approved yourselves, to be clear in this matter. 1 Chron. xv. 12. And (David) faid unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites fanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Ifrael, unto the place that I have prepared for it. V. 13. For becaufe ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we fought him not after the due order. v. 14. So the priests and the Levites fancli fied themfelves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Ifrael.

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176. m Matth. xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

1.Cor. xi. 23. For I have received of the Lord, that which alfo I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jefus, the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread.

n Rom. vi. 3. Know ye not, that fo many of us as were baptized into Jefus Chrift, were baptized into his death? v. 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptifm into death that like as Chrift was raifed up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even fo we also should walk in newness of life. 1 Cor. x. 16. The cup of blefling which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

o Rom. iv. 11. And he received the fign of circumcifion, a feal of the righteoufnefs of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcifed: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcifed; that righteoufnefs might be imputed unto them alfo. Compared with Col. ii. 12. Buried with him in baptifm, wherein alfo you are rifen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. Matth. xxvi. 27. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, faying, drink ye all of it: v. 28. For this is my blood of the

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of the gospel, and by none other p, and to be continued in the church of Chrift until his fecond coming q.

Q. 177. Wherein do the facraments of baptifm and the Lord's Supper differ?

A. The facraments of baptifm and the Lord's fupper differ, in that baptifm is to be adminiftred but once, with water, to be a sign and feal of our regeneration and ingrafting into Chrift r, and that even to infants; whereas the Lord's fupper is to be administered often, in the elements of bread and wine, to reprefent and exhibit

new teftament, which is fhed for many for the remission of fins.

John i. 33. And I knew him not: but he that fent me to baptize with water, the fame faid unto me, Upon whom thou fhalt fee the Spirit defcending and remaining on him, the fame is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghoft. Matth. xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. 1 Cor. xi. 23. For I have received of the Lord, that which alfo I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jefus, the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread. Cor. iv. 1. Let a man fo account of us, as of the minifters of Chrift, and ftewards of the mysteries of God. Heb. v. 4. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

q Matth. xxviii. 19. Go ye there, fore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: v. 20. Teaching them to obferve all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world, Amen. 1 Cor. xi. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew the Lord's death till he come.

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177. Matth, iii. 11, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me, is mightier than I, whofe fhoes I am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghoft, and with fire. Tit. iii. 5. Not by works of righteoufnefs, which we have done, but according to his mercy he faved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Gal. iii. 27. For as many of you as have been bap tized into Chrift, have put on Chrift.

f Gen. xvii. 7. And I will efta. blifh my covenant between me and thee, and thy feed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant; to be a God unto thee, and to thy feed after thee. v. 9. And God faid unto Abraham, Thou fhalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy feed after thee, in their generations. Acts ii. 38. Then Peter faid unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jefus Chrift, for the re miffion of fins, and ye fhall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. v. 39; For the promife is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God fhall call. I Cor. vii. 14. For the unbelieving hufband is fanctified by the wife, and the onbelieving wife is fanctified by the

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Christ as spiritual nourishment to the foul, and to confirm our continuance and growth in him v, and that only to fuch as are of years and ability to examine theinfelves w. Q. 178. What is prayer?

A. Prayer is an offering up of our defires unto God x, in the name of Chrift y, by the help of his Spirit z ; with confeffion of our fins a, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies b.

Q. 179. Are we to pray unto God only?

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A. God only being able to fearch the hearts c, hear the requests

hufband; elfe were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

1 Cor. xi. 23. For I have received of the Lord, that which alfo I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jefus, the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread: V. 24. And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and faid, Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. V. 25 After the fame manner alfo he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. v. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew the Lord's death till he come.

1 Cor. x. 16. The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift?

w1 Cor. xi. 28. But let a man examine himself, and fo let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. v. 29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himfelf, not difcerning the Lord's body.

178.x Pfal. xii. 8. Truft in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

y John xvi. 23. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing: Verily verily I fay unto you, Whatfoever ye fhall afk the Father in my name, he, will give it you.

z Rom. viii. 26. Likewife the. Spirit alfo helpeth our infirmities? for we know not what we fhould pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itfelf maketh interceffion for us with groanings which cannot be ut tered.

a Pfal. xxxii. 5. I acknowledged my fin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid: I faid, I will confefs my tranfgreffions unto the Lord and thou forgaveft the iniquity of my fin, Selah. v. 6. For this fhall every one that is godly, pray unto thee, in a time when thou mayeft be found.-Dan. ix. 4. And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confeffion, and faid, O Lord, the great and dreadful God.- 1

b Phil, iv. 6. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and fupplication, with thanksgiving, let your requels be made known unto God.

179. c 1 Kings viii. 39. Then hear thou in heaven thy dwellingplace, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whole heart thou knoweft; for thou, even thou only, knoweit the hearts

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