The communicants guide directing the younger sort, which have never yet received, and the elder, and ignorant sort, which have hitherto received unworthily, how they may receive the sacrament of the Lords Supper to their souls comfort together with a treatise of divine truths, collected out of ancient and moderne divines
Gove, R. (Richard), 1587-1668.
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EXPRESSION II. Of this, That a wicked man, and an unworthy Re∣ceiver, may at the Sacrament Receive the outward Elements of Bread, and Wine, without receiving any benefit by the Body and Bloud of Christ.

FOr it is here as in the usance of a con∣veyance. Now we know, that if a conveyance made to Peter, lying upon a Table be given to Richard, or to any other person to whom it doth not be∣long; or which Richard, or any other person fraudulently taketh away; it doth them no good at all, by reason the Co∣venant was not made with any of them, but with Peter onely: So the unworthy Receiver, being not the party to whom the promise is made of receiving Christ, with the benefis of his Death, and Pas∣sion, receives onely the bare outward Elements and not the things signified thereby.