which is required of every worthy Communi∣cant. We come now not to receive life, but strength, and that it may strengthen us, we must of necessity clense our selves. A stomack over clog'd with choler what ever meat be taken into it, it turns it into its own nature: so is it here, unless the vessel be clean, Quod∣cunque infundis, acessit. Christ Jesus the purest thing in the world is to come into my soul, as into a sanctuary, and shall not I fit, trimme and garnish it to receive him, but leave it as a Pig-stie? Know therefore that thou com∣est unworthily when thou comest with un∣washed hands. The people were to be sanctified when they came to receive the Law. And so must we if we will receive the benefit from the business in hand: But I cannot stand on all. I pass from this therefore to the second thing I proposed, and that was;2. Those things which were required of us in the action. And there we have the acts of the Minister in the administration: I must not look on these as idle Ceremonies, but as real Representations, otherwise we take Gods name in vain. I must look upon the Minister who represents the person of Christ, and by the eyes of faith see Christ himself offered for thee, when thou seest the bread broken, the wine poured out. Behold him offered to thee when the Minister bids thee take and eat, take and drink. And when the Minister bids 0