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INSTRUCTIONS
How to live well after a worthy receiving of the Sacrament.
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever. Deut. xxix. 29.
Ir thou wouldst preserve thy faith incorrupt, and thy devotion from distraction, content thyself with reverencing and admiring these holy mysteries; and do not indulge a busy curiosity, in bold and unprofitable inquiries concerning them, for this is one way to damp a godly zeal, and to perplex thy mind with intricate and endless doubts.
Happy is that meekness and poverty of spirit, which industriously declines the rugged, thorny paths of controversy and captious disputes, and walks in the plain, smooth way of duty and practical religion; which studies GOD's commands, and labours to understand things of a size with its own capacity, without troubling itself about his doings and de
crees.
Too many instances there are of daring men, who, by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion. These men mistake their business for the thing required of a Christian is not penetration, and subtilty of wit, nice distinction, or sublime notions,