There is an awful residue in the converted soul of proneness to a forgetfulness of Jesus; to alleviate and check this disease was one thing designed in this sacred institution. Our Lord, who knew all things, knew how apt the hearts of his people would be to forget him amidst the throng of their corruptions and the croud of sensible objects; their pleasures and worldly business; therefore he appointed and left this memorial of himself.—Men do not usually neglect the remembrances, the mortal rings and dying signatures of their departed relatives and friends. Christ has here left his church a token of his friendship and a dying memorial of all he did for the recovery of the spiritual life they had lost, and their restoration to the favour of God and forfeited felicity.

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