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examining yourself, 1 Cor. xi. 28, and renewing your peace with God before you receive, according to the directions before given, chap. v. sect. 2. Also make your peace, at least be at peace, and in charity with your neighbour, by a hearty acknowledging your fault so far as is fit, and making recompence, if you have done him wrong, Matt. v. 23, 24; and by forgiving, and forbearing revenge, if he hath done you wrong, Col. iii. 13.

In the act of administering and receiving, join in confession and prayers, and attend to the actions of the minister when he breaks the bread, pours out the wine, and by blessing sets it apart for holy use, 1 Cor. x. 16; by faith behold Christ, in representation, wounded, bleeding, and crucified before your eyes for you; looking upon him whom your sins condemned and pierced to the death, rather than his accusers, and those who nailed him to the cross; who, though malicious, were but instruments of that punishment which God, with other tokens of his wrath, did execute upon him, though in himself a Lamb without spot, justly for your sin, he being your surety.

This looking upon him whom you have pierced, Zech. xii. 10, should partly dissolve you into a holy grief for sin: but chiefly, considering that by this his passion he hath made full satisfaction for you, and also seeing what blessings God and Christ himself, by the hand of his minister, giving Christ's body and blood sacramentally, do signify and seal unto you, it should raise your heart to a holy admiration of the love of God and of Christ, and it should excite you, in the very act of taking the bread and wine, to a reverend and thankful receiving of this his body and blood by faith, discerning the Lord's body, 1 Cor. xi. 29; gathering assurance hereby that now all enmity between God and you is done away, if you are believers indeed; and that you by this, as by spiritual food for life, shall grow up in him, with the rest of his mystical body, unto everlasting life.

1st. After that you have received, until you be to join in public praise and prayers, affect your heart