An introduction to the sacrament, or, A short, plain, and safe way to the communion table being an instruction for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper / collected for and familiarly addressed to every particular communicant.

VIII.

First, By making known un∣to you, and as many as believe on him, the whole Will of God; assuring all such as fail not to do it, that they shall meet with a most gracious acceptance, and bountiful reward. During the time of Christ's troublesome Pil∣grimage upon Earth, you know it was one chief part of his Em∣ployment to give such Com∣mands and Counsels, as by their own inward goodness were suf∣ficient to approve themselves to mans rational nature. His Doctrine wore no Veil, nor was it wrapt up in Types and Sha∣dows; but both in its Perspicu∣ity and Justice, Christ shew'd himself to be the Son of Righ∣teousness, Mal. 4. 2. He would not suffer his Gospel, like Moses Law, to consist in Carnal, but

Spiritual Observances; not in cleansing the Pollutions of the Body, but in purifying the Af∣fections of the Soul. And by giving a Law proper to this end, he proved himself to be a true Prophet, whose work is not onely to foretel what shall be hereafter (though in this stri∣ctest sense of the word, Christ was so far forth a Prophet as was needful for his Church) but to instruct what men are to do; to expound, signifie, and make known the mind and good pleasure of God. And this he did in his Sermons, especially in that on the Mount; where∣in he hath shewn upon what terms eternal Blessedness is to be had under the Gospel. He also revealed some Commands of God, which were not before so expresly revealed; and ex∣pounding such as were so ob∣scurely revealed in the old

Testament, that men thought not themselves fully obliged to obey them.