ACCOUNT

OF THE

NATURE and END

OF THE

SACRAMENT

OF THE

Lord's-Supper.

IN WHICH

All the Texts in the New Testament, rela-
ting to it, are produced and explained:
and the Whole Doctrine about it, drawn
from Them alone.

To which are added,

FORMS of PRAYER.

LONDON:

Printed for JAMES, JOHN, and PAUL KNAPTON,
at the Crown in Ludgate-Street. MDCC XXXV.

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THE

PREFAСЕ.

I

N the following Treatise, I have endeavoured to establish and explain the true Nature, End, and Effect, of the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper. The Subftance of it is What I preached, many Years ago, in feveral Sermons, when I had the Care of a Parish in London.

In that Relation, I thought it my Duty always to have a View to the particular Demands of Those I was to inftruct. Efpecially, I esteemed my felf obliged to have a very peculiar Regard to the Wants of Some of the Beft and moft fincere Chriftians; whom I found often in danger of great Errors, or great Superftition; and too commonly disturbed and perplexed by fuch Fears and Terrors, as indeed made their Defire of being truly Religious, the Burthen and Mifery, instead of the Delight, of their Lives.

As therefore, for the fake of One Sort of Chriftians, I never ceafed to inculcate the Neceffity of Univerfal Obedience to the Will of God; that there might be no hope left to Them of Acceptance, without This: So, for the Defense and Support of Others, in their fincere Endeavors to pleafe God, against all those uneafy impreffions of Superftition, which They had a right to be freed from, I made it my care to ftate and explain the Commands peculiar to Christianity, from the first Declarations of Christ himself, and his Apostles, in fuch a Manner, as that They might appear to Honest Minds to have as little Tendency to create Distress and Uneafinefs, as They were defigned, in their firft Simplicity, to have. Amongst these, I found that, in no one inftance of Chriftian Duty, there was more need of Afsistance, than in this of their Attendance upon the Lord's-Supper; which had been rendered very Uneafy to Them by the Notions They had, by fome means or other, embraced about it.

What I then preached, not without fome Succefs, I now publifh with the fame ho- neft Design of inftructing Thofe who want Inftruction; and have no better at hand. I have thrown the Whole into a new Form; and made feveral Additions to what I first preached, in order to a more clear undertanding of this Subject: and this, in fuch

a manner