338 `t fie goon9 ano farüüp a . s. What are theEnds ofit'? P. Not really to (a) Sacrifice (hrifiagain ; Nor to turn (b) bread into no bread, and wine into no wine ; (which if every Prieft can do, he might 'Confocrate all the Breadand Wine in the BakersShop and Vintners or anyother Cellar, and fo famiíh men. But the Papifts themfelves fay, without his Intention it is not done : But no man knoweth the Priefis intention : therefore nomanknoweth whether he take bread or the body of Chrift. And if all the found mens fenfes in the world, be not tobe truftedwhether breadbebreadandwine be wine, then we can know nothing,no not that there is a Bibleor that ever God revealed his will to man, or that there is a man in the world : And therefore cannot pof- fbly be believers.) Nor is the ufe of the Sacrament to confirm mens wicked confederacies, nor to flatter wickedmen in their prefizmption, nor to fave them by the outward aft alone. But the end of the Sacrament is I. To be a folemn (c) Commemoration of the Sacrifice of Chrift by his death, until he come. That the Church may,as it were, fea his body broken and his blood fhed, and behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the fins of the world. 2. To be a folemn Renewing of the Covenant of Grace, on Chrifts part and on ours : even the fame which you made in Baptifm, and at Converfion ; but with force addition ; The one being the Sacrament of (a) HcJ.70.I2.ej" 9.16.6-- 7 27. (b) I Cor. I I. 26, 27,28,2 9. (c) 1 Cor.I I.28,29,?0. I Cor.I I.24,25, 26. /V4'026.28. c)-21 ark,14.24.Lttke 22.20. Heb.9.i5, 16, 17,18. I Cor.1o.16,24. yuh. 6 ,,3z,35,51,58. our
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