2-go ':A ·SAlnt ~1 ABr'Nte: · Part IT.' . 4· Another Plt.t/ttnt Holy Dut], is, Our holy Communion with Cbnft ar.Jd his Church in the Lords Supper . .This is a holy Feaft ~hat is purp~fely provided by the King of Samts, for the emerra1nme~t of h1s famdy ; for the refrefhing of the weary, and the makmg glad the mournful foul. Tbe nioht before his hitter Death, he infiiruted this Sacramental Fca£1: ! He oufed his Dijciples to fit down with him·, and when they had par– raked of the Pafs<:>ver,the Sttcrament of' Premife , and had their tafle of the uld:wine, ·he giveth them the New, even the S-p{,cra– rr;tnt of the better Covenant, and of the fuller QojpdGr~tce : He teachetb them that his Death is Life te them : at;id that which is his hittereft [ujfering, is their Feaft : and his Sorrows are their foyes; as ourjinful pluzj~tres were his farrows. The Jlain L~t•!J of God our Pafsover that w~Jacrificed fer m, that tak.§th aWtty tht fins of the world, was the pleafant food ; which Sacrament'ally h~ llimfetf then delivered to them , and fubftantially the next day offered for them. The kread of G&Jd is he which cometh do11n from . htaven, andgivethlife unto the world, John6.33. H-e is the Living Bread which came down fr&Jm Hut'i:len : If ""1 man eat of this .Bread, he foal! live for ever : t:end the bread that he givtth is,hiJ flefh, which he hath given for the life of the wrwld. ver. 50.5 I. Except we eat the ~efh of the Son of man, and drink... his blood, we have m life in m: WhofQ ett'teth his ~efh and drink.fth his blood, hath 13ternallife, and he will raife him up at the lajJ aay: For his fl!./h is meat indeed , and his bleod is drink.,- indeed : He that Nlteth his fle./h,and drinkphhis bl{)od, dwelleth in Chrift, and Chrift in him: As the Living Father bath fent the Son, and he liveth h) the F?t– ther, fo he th~j,eateth him,fhalllive by him. This is th.!:t l?rutd thAt came down from Hellven : not M the Fathers did tilt MannA · tmJare dead : hetha.reatetb this bre.<ttlfhall live for ever.] I knowdut to an unbelieving carnal wretch, the.Sacr:u:nent is bm a common thing. For Chriil himfelf and his Gofpel is no better·in his eyes. He difcerneth not the Lorcls body : He only q.uic'teth and deludeth his cor:fcience with .tbeou~ward form. He bath not faith to feed on Chnll :But to ahvelyfasth, what fweet-: nefs doth fuch a Fcafi afford? - We have here Communion with · the hltf[ed Trinity, ~n the thru parts. of this Euchariflicll Sacr~ment ! As the Father is . ~oth o1:1r Crultor and the offended .J1aJeftJ, and yet he hat~ fen! his, So". ~o be our Re4ee~tr ; fo 1~ the firft part~ wbtchth: ·
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