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Excerpt from A Sacramental Directory, or a Treatise Concerning the Sanctification of a Communion Sabbath It being our great business in the world, to promote God's glory and our own salvation, and, in order thereto, to seek acquaintance with and secure an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ (the sole mediator betwixt God and men), and also to labor for the comfortable persuasion and assurance of this interest, it hath pleased God, for our assistance in this matter, graciously to prescribe to us the use of several outward means, as the word, sacraments and prayer, and also to promise the inward influence of his Holy Spirit, for making these means effectual for the ends aforesaid, to such as conscientiously attend them and use them. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper, one of these means, being instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ, as a bright representation and compend of the whole Christian religion, and an ordinance nobly adapted for carrying on the ends of God's glory, and our soul's salvation, and particularly for clearing up our interest in Christ, and improving our acquaintance with him, it highly concerns every Christian to make conscience of attending in a due and suitable manner. I have elsewhere shown that the Lord's Day is of divine appointment, and the celebration of the Lord's Supper is the proper work of this day, and one special design of its first institution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.