And these are first, That I fhou'd Examine, Confefs, and Bewail my Sins before GOD, with a true fenfe of and forrow for them, and taking firm Refolutions for the time to come, utterly to relinquish and forsake them, folemnly engage myself in a new and truly Christian courfe of Life.

Secondly, That I fhou'd be in perfect charity with all men, i. e. That I fhou'd heartily forgive those who have any ways injur'd or offended me; and make Reftitution or Satisfaction to fuch whom I have, in any refpect, injur'd or offended myself.

And then thirdly, That I fhou'd, with an humble and obedient Heart, exercise the Acts of Faith, and Love, and Devotion, during the Celebration of that Holy Mystery; and express the sense I have of this Mystery, by devout Praises and Thanksgivings for the great Mercies and Favours that GOD vouchfafes to me therein; and by all the ways and meafures of Charity that He has prescrib'd, manifeft my Love to my Redeemer, by my Love and Beneficence to my Christian Brethren.

These are the proper Graces, this the Wedding Garment that every true Chriftian, who comes to be a Guest at this

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Holy Supper, ought to be cloathed and invefted with.

Do thou, O Bleffed Jefus! adorn me with this Holy Robe, and infpire my Soul with fuch Heavenly Qualities and Difpofitions as thefe, and then I need not fear, but that as oft as I eat the Flesh of Chrift, and drink his Blood, I shall effectually obtain the pardon and remiffion of my Sins, the fanctifying Influences of his Holy Spirit, and a certain Interest in the Kingdom of Glory.

See farther, Treatife of the Sacrament.

ARTICLE XI.

I believe that after a fhort feparation, my Soul and Body fhall be united together again, in order to appear before the Fudgment-feat of Christ, and be finally fentenc'd according to my Deferts.

Know this Body, which for the prefent I am tied to, is nothing elfe but a piece of Clay made up into the frame and fashion of a Man; and therefore, as it was first taken from the Duft, so shall it return to Duft again: But then I believe, on the other hand, that it fhall as really be raised from the Earth, as ever it fhall be carried to it; yea, tho' perhaps it may go through a hundred, or a thoufand, changes before that Day come. There are, I confefs, fome Points in this Article which are hardly to be folv'd by Humane Reason; but I believe there are none fo difficult, but what may be reconcil'd by a Divine Faith: Tho' it be too hard for me to know, yet it is not too hard for GOD to do. He that fhould have told me, fome Years ago, that my Body then was, or fhould be a mixture of L

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Particles fetched from fo many parts of the World, and undergo fo many Changes and Alterations, as to become, in a manner new, fhou'd fcarce have extorted the belief of it from me, tho' now I perceive it to be a real Truth; the Meats, Fruits, and Spices which we eat being transported from feveral different Places and Nations, and by Natural Digeftion transfus'd into the Conftitution of the Body. And why fhou'd not I believe, that the fame AImighty Power, who made thefe feveral Beings or Particles of Matter by which I am fed and fuftain'd, can as eafily, with his Word, recall each Part again from the moft fecret or remote Place that it can poffibly be tranfported to? Or, That He who fram❜d me out of the Duft, can, with as much eafe, gather all the fcatter'd Parts of the Body, and put them together again, as He at firft form'd it into fuch a Shape, and infus'd into it a fpiritual Being?

And this Article of my Faith I believe is not only grounded upon, but may, even by the force of Reafon, be deduced from the Principles of Juftice and Equity; Juftice requiring, that they who are Copartners in Vice and Vertue, fhould be Copartners alfo in Punishments and Rewards. There is fcarce a Sin a Man com

mits but his Body hath a fhare in it; for tho' the Sin committed would not be a Sin without the Soul, yet it could not be committed without the Body; the finfulness of it depends upon the former, but the commiffion of it may lawfully be charg'd upon the latter: The Body could not Sin, if the Soul did not confent; nor could the Soul fin (especially fo oft) if the Body did not tempt to it. And this is particu larly obfervable in the Sins of Adultery, Drunkennefs, and Gluttony, which the Soul of itself cannot commit, neither would it ever consent unto them, did not the prevalent Humours of the Body, as it were, force it to do fo. For in these Sins, the Act that is finful is wholly performed by the Body, tho' the finfulness of that Act doth principally depend upon the Soul.

Neither is the Body only Partner with the Soul in these groffer Sins, but even the more fpiritual Sins, which feem to be most abstract from the temperature of the Body, as if they depended only upon the pravity and corruption of the Soul; I fay, even thefe, are partly to be afcrib'd to the Body. For inftance, An Atheistical Thought, which, one would think, was to be laid only upon the Soul, because the Thought takes its rife from thence; yet if we feri