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PARTITION III.
Of the LORDS SUPPER, of Preparation before, of Duties to be done at the Receiving, and afterwards, &c.
§ 1. NOw follows the reverence due to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; and in this I must fol∣low my first division, and set down first what is to be done before, secondly, at, and thirdly, after the time of receiving, for in this Sacrament we cannot be excused from any one of these, though in the former we are.
2. And first for that which is to be done be∣fore, S. Paul tells us it is examination, 1 Cor. 11 28. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. But before I proceed to the particulars of this examination, I must in the general tell you that the special business we have to do in this Sacrament, is to repeat, and renew that cove∣nant