Approaching the Sacraments

In the Gospel Worship reading, Burroughs expounds upon many different aspects of the mindset with which we should approach the sacraments. One aspect of this is the combination of joy and sorrow in approaching the sacraments: sorrow because of our sin in the sight of a holy God but joy because He has given us mercy and grace (248).  Without having that initial sorrow for our sin, we will not have the joy of knowing we are saved by grace from that sin.  Thus as we reflect on the work of Christ, we experience both sorrow and joy, which seems contradictory but really one flows from the other.

Burroughs starts his conclusion on this sermon on our approach to the sacraments by saying that “so far as you have been wanting in any of these, know just so far you have taken God’s name in vain . . .” On pg.254, he also says, “Ho, how many are cut off who have thus profaned the name of God in this sacrament and have never come to understand this danger! They are cut off and now are undone forever.”  Is Burroughs saying that any failure to partake of communion perfectly results in condemnation? What does he mean by condemnation?