My blood, and be made one with Me; that thou mightest come into Me, and I into thee. I have made thee a member of My body, bone of My bones, and flesh of My flesh. Thou that wallowest in thy sins, thou Sodom, and Gomorrah, thou child of destruction, who hast rejoiced in My shame, and art not moved with the pains which I have suffered, what might I do for thy sake, to save thee, that I have not done? What might I suffer, and have not endured it? O be a partner of My death, that thou mayest have part in My resurrection.

Let us die with Christ, let us be crucified unto the world; let us be holy eagles, and soar above; let us go up into the great parlour, and receive of our Lord the cup of the New Testament. There let us behold the Body that was crucified for us, and the Blood which was shed for us. There let us say, this is the ransom of the world: this was once offered, and hath made perfect for ever all them that believe this entered once into the holy place, and obtained everlasting redemption for us: this standeth always in the presence of God, and maketh intercession for us: this is the

Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world: by this Body I am now no more earth and ashes: by this I am now not a bondman, but made free. This Body hath broken the gates of hell, and hath opened heaven. In this are all the treasures of God's mercy; by this the prince of darkness is cast forth: in this Body shall He come again to judge the quick and the dead.

Let no unclean or filthy person, no adulterer, no usurer, no cruel extortioner, or devourer of God's people, offer himself to the receiving of this Sacrament. If any be such an one, I require him by the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and by the Judge of the quick and the dead, that he come not to the Lord's Table, that he betray not the Son of God. It were better he had never been born, and that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he thrown into the sea. Let us not deceive ourselves: God will not be mocked. He receiveth damnation, that receiveth unworthily.

Let us fall down before our Lord, and give thanks unto Him. Let us say, What shall I give unto the Lord for all that He hath given

unto me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the Name of the Lord. Let us say, O Lord our Lord, how wonderful is Thy Name in all the world! Let us say, Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me praise His holy Name. Let us purpose, and promise amendment of our life: let us go out with Peter, and weep; let us fall at Christ's feet with Mary Magdalene, and with our tears wash His feet. Let us say with David, "I have sinned to the Lord." Let us say with the prodigal son, "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against. Thee, I am no more worthy to be called Thy son." Let us say, "Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy great mercy. Thou art my God, I am Thy servant. O save me for Thy mercy's sake." Let us offer up our bodies a living, pure, holy, and acceptable sacrifice to God. So shall we be partakers of the death of Christ and of His resurrection. Thus have we briefly gone through the whole matter of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, and followed the same order which was set down. First, that we do in the Sacrament truly eat the Body of Christ.

Secondly, what is the meaning of the words, "This is My Body." Thirdly, whether the bread remain in nature and substance. Fourthly, whether it be eaten with the mouth of the body, or by faith only. Fifthly, what difference is between the Body of Christ and the mystical signs. Sixthly, how we must be prepared, and with what devotion we ought to come to receive this Sacrament.

Having thus treated of the Sacraments of the New Testament, and said so much as is needful for you to know of them both, as well of Baptism, which is the Sacrament of our regeneration, as of our Lord's Supper, which is the Sacrament of our refection or nourishment: I will now in few words speak something of Confirmation, of Matrimony, of Ecclesiastical Ministry, which some call Holy Orders, of Repentance or Penance, and of Extreme Unction, which some of late years have called Sacraments, and by joining these to the other have made up the number of seven Sacraments, and so have charged the Church with five Sacraments more than Christ did ever ordain.

For these five want either the word, or the

element, or both, and therefore may not be taken for true Sacraments. Such as have with all their skill shewed themselves helpers and furtherers of our adversaries, yet have plainly confessed that they are not Sacraments of Christ's institution. Alexander of Hales saith of Confirmation, "The Sacrament of Confirmation, as it is a Sacrament, was not ordained either by Christ or by the Apostles, but afterwards in the Council of Melda;" which Council was kept many years after Christ. And Durandus saith of Matrimony, "Matrimony in due and proper kind of speech is no Sacrament." And Bessarion, a Cardinal, confesseth, (as it was shewed before,) that in due and right consideration, none of these five may be called Sacraments: "We read, saith he, that these two only Sacraments were delivered us plainly in the Gospel."

First, of Confirmation, which is so called, because that which was done on our behalf in Baptism, is ratified and confirmed: many parents had not such due care as they ought in the godly bringing up of their children; so that many children knew not whether they were baptized or no: many were never taught