Parakaleo
Puritan Board Sophomore
I'm compiling something for an article. What are some of the clearest statements from Puritans and the Reformed on the need for warning and self-examination when coming to the Lord's Table? I'd be really interested in quotes that speak to self-abstention of the impenitent believer from the Table.
Here's one I found that I really like:
Here's one I found that I really like:
Are all to come promiscuously to this holy ordinance? We must examine ourselves before we come, because it is not only a duty imposed, but opposed. There is nothing to which the heart is naturally more averse than self-examination. We may know that duty to be good which the heart opposes. But why does the heart so oppose it? Because it crosses the tide of corrupt nature, and is contrary to flesh and blood. The heart is guilty; and does a guilty person love to be examined? The heart opposes it; therefore the rather set upon it; for that duty is good which the heart opposes. (Body of Divinity, Contained in Sermons on the Assembly's Catechism, by the Rev. Thomas Watson)