Excerpt from Sacramental Meditations and Advices, Grounded Upon Scripture Texts, Proper for Communicants, to Prepare Their Hearts, Excite Their Affections, Quicken Their Graces, and Enliven Their Devotions, on Sacramental Occasions: And Likewise Useful to Promote Gracious Disposition and Resolutions in Christians, at All Times, Upon the Remembrance of a Crucified Jesus Moreover, Reader, confider if you go to this Or dinance unpreparedly, or with indifference, you not onlymake light of the Lord jelna Chrifi, but you are guilty of tbe Body and Blood of the Lord, 1 Cor. Xi. 27. Surely that Word may caul'e you to quake and tremble; B/ood gui/{mefi of any Sort is a dread ful Sin, and efpecially to be guilty of the Bloodof Lord Murder is a Sin that cries for Vengeance on the Actor, and gives God no Bell till he punilh it, Get: iv. To. The Voice of tiny Brat/wt: Blood crietfi to me ram r/je Eartb. Ifit be a crying Sin to mur der a common Perfon, what mufl it be to murder a King} W'bo can flretcb fort/1 In? Hand ogairzfl 163 Lord' grointea', and be gujllkfi? I Sam. Xxvi. 9. 0 then, what a Crime mutt it be to murder the eternal Son of God, who is thy exalted King. Thy everlafting Father, thy dear Redeemer, and My God who gave thee awheing. -coi/d-mzrrder is a heinous Crime, but vvhat l/jri/l-mura'er is, no Tongue can tell l If on him that flew Cain (that wicked Man) Vengeance flrould he taken feren fold, what - Vengeance will be taken on him that crucifies afreih the Lord ofglory 2 T is Confideration lhould make all of us afraid of carelefs and unworthy Communicating. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.