4. The duty to be performed in respect of our Neighbour, is Charity.

Charity is a hearty forgiving of others, who have offended us, and after reconciliation, an outward unfeigned testifying of the in∣ward affections of our hearts by gestures, words, and deeds as oft as we meet, and occasion is offered.* For first, without love to our Neighbour, no Sacrifice is acceptable unto God. Secondly,* because one chief end wherefore the Lord's Supper was or∣dained, is to confirm Christians love one towards another. Thirdly, no man can assure himself that his own sins are for∣given of God,* if his heart cannot yield to forgive the faults of men that have of∣fended him. Thus far of the first sort of Duties which we are to perform before we come to the Lord's Table, called Pre∣paration.