AN instruction FOR ALL THOSE THAT INTEND to go to the blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper:  
ARE you minded to go to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.  
Answer. 
 Yes, by God's grace to renew my Covenant with my God. 
Exod. 19 4. 5. ver.   
What is a Sacrament.  
A. A visible sign of the invisible graces.  
Q. What are the visible signs?  
A. Bread, and Wine.  
Q. A What are the invisible graces? 
Mar. 14. 17. 18. v   
A. The body and blood of Christ. 
Luk. 22. 8. 9 v.   
Q. Why is it called the Lord's Supper?  
A. 
Ioh. 12.  Because Christ after he had eaten the Paschal lamb, instituted it at evening with his Disciples.  
Q What did the Paschall lamb signify to the Jews? 
1 Cor. 11 23. 24. v.   
A. 
Heb. 9 23.  It was a Type of Christ to come.  
Q. But Christ being come, is the Pascall Lamb, and all other Jewish rites finished?  
A. 
Heb. 12. 25. 26. 27.  Yes, and the Lord instituted in the place of it, his last Supper.  
Q. To whom did Christ deliver his blessed Sacrament?  
A. To his Disciples.  
Q. After what manner did Christ institute, and deliver the Sacrament?  
A. 
Mar. 26. 26. v.  First, he blessed the Bread and Wine.  
Secndly, he broke the bread, and poured out the Wine.  
Thirdly, he gave it to his Disciples.  
Q. What learn you by Christ's blessing these two elements of bread and wine?  
A. First, it teacheth all Ministers to follow his example, in administering the Sacraments.  
Secondly, it teacheth all beholders to put a difference between these elements, and common bread and wine.  
Thirdly, 
Ioh. 19 34. v.  when the Minister breaks the bread, and poureth out the wine, I call to mind, how Christ's body was broken and his blood shed for my sins.  
Fourthly, that Christ gave it them, it teacheth me, that when the Minister gives me the bread and wine, I behold God the Father offering me his son: The son giving himself: And the holy Ghost sanctifying the action.  
Q. How do you receive it?  
A. As I receive the bread and wine, from the hand of the Minister, I by the hand of faith, receive the body and blood of Christ, and feed on him in my heart by believing, to eternal life.  

For Examination.  
What ought every Christian to do before he come to the Lord's Table?  
A. 
1 Cor. 11.  He must examine himself.  
Q. In what manner?  
A. First whether he have the knowledge of God and of his son Jesus Christ. 
Ioh. 17.   
Secondly, whether he hath a lively faith, to take hold on Christ and all his promises.  
Thirdly, 
Act. 1. 37.  whether he hath a penitent heart, and a godly sorrow for his sins past, 
2 Cor. 7.  with a purpose never to sin any more.  
Fourthly, 
Ioh. 15.  whether he hath love first, to God, secondly to his neighbour, 
1 Cor. 11.  for the Sacrament is a communion of the mystical body of Christ.  
Q What if he wants this charity to his Neighbour?  
A. He hath no part in this communion.  
Q What is then to be done?  
A. only Christ's rule, If thou bring thy gift to the Altar, first be reconeiled to thy brother, and then offer thy gift. Mat. 5. 25. 26.  
Q. Who are else excluded from this Sacrament?  
A. 
1 Cor. 11.  1. If any man be a blasphemer, and a swearer, he is not to partake of it.  
2. 
Eph. 5. 3.  If any man be a drunkard, come not near this Table of the Lord, 
Revel. 1.  for it is not for swine.  
3. If a fornicator or adulterer, he defiles the Temple of God.  
4. If any be a profaner of the Lord's day, let him know he tramples God's eternal Law under his feet. 
Exod. 20.   
5. If any be a covetous person, or an oppressor of his neighbour, 
Gal. 5. Rom.  or a backbiter, a slanderer, or an envious person against any, let them know: That they profane the Lord's Table, yea, they eat and drink their own damnation, decause they discern not the Lord's body.  
Q. What doth this teach the Ministers of Christ?  
A. To be careful as much as in them lieth to see that those that be under their charge be fitted and prepared, before they come to receive these holy mysteries.  
FINIS.    

LONDON, Printed by Francis Leech, at the Falcon in shoe-lane 1646.