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with joy and thankfulness in the assurance of the pardon of all your sins, and of salvation by Christ; and that more than if you being a bankrupt, should receive an acquittance sealed of the release of all your debts, and with it a will and testament wherein you should have a legacy of no less than a kingdom, sealed with such a seal as gives clear proof of the fidelity, ability, and death of the testator; or than if, having been a traitor, you shall receive a free and full pardon from the king, sealed with his own seal, together with an assurance that he has adopted you to be his child, to be married to his son, the heir of the crown. This is your case, when by faith you receive the bread and wine, the body and blood of the Lord. Think thus, therefore, with joy and rejoicing in God. O! how happy am I in Christ my Saviour! God, who has given him to death for me, and also given him to me, how shall he not with him freely give me all things? Rom. viii. 32; even whatsoever may pertain to life, godliness, and glory, 2 Peter i. 3. Who shall lay any thing to my charge? Who, or what can separate me from the love of Christ? &c. Rom. viii. 33 - 39.

2d. Resolve withal upon a constant and an unfeigned endeavour to perform all duties becoming one thus acquitted, thus redeemed, pardoned, and advanced; and this in token of thankfulness; even to keep the covenant required to be performed on your part; undoubtedly expecting whatsoever God has covenanted and sealed on his part.

3d. Join in public praise and prayer heartily, and in a liberal contribution to the poor, if there be a collection.

4th. After the sacrament, if you feel your faith strengthened, and your soul comforted, nourish it with all thankfulness.

If not, yet, if your conscience can witness that you endeavoured to prepare as you ought, and to receive as you ought, be not discouraged, but wait for strength and comfort in due time. We do not always feel the benefit of bodily food presently, but stirring of humours and sense of disease is sometimes rather occasioned;