a28 The right manner ofSanaifying the Name of god Secondly , We muff lanailie Gods Name in drawing nigh to him : whatfoever we do, whether the eat or drink, the mull do all to the glory of god. Now ifyour common eating and drin- king we muff do all to the Glory of God, then certainly in this fpititual eating and drinking there mutt be fome fpecial thing done for the gloryof God in this e. Becaule there is fo much of God in it ; for here there is a prefenting before us thegreat, yea, the greateft My fteries ofSal vation , and deep Counfels of God concerning Eternal Life are prefented before us in thefe outward Elements of the Bread and Wine, and attion thereof. Now when we come to eat and to drink thole things that are appointed to fet fortheAhe great Myfteries of Salvation, andthe deepeft of the Counfels of God concerning mansEternal good, wherein efpecially God will glorifie Hirefelf ; we had need there fanttifie the Name ofGod, for the things chat are very great and glorious that areprefented unto us. 2. is Ordinance ofrhe Lords Supper, or the Communion, it is an 'relit-lance that Chrift hash left to his Church, out of the abundance of his love ; and therefore you (hall find if you read in the inftitution of it, in the 25. of (Matthew that the fame night wherein Chriti was betrayed, he took Bread and Brake though Chrift was to die the next day , and to encounter with the wrath of God, yea, that very night he was to be in an Agony, andto fweat drops of Water and Bloed, and the next day to die, and to have thefe tr-Vals of wrath powrtd upon him, fo as toput him to cry our, 91y god, my god, why haft thou forfakeyi me ? yet he bufies his thoughts that very night to infti- cure this Supper ; purely this mutt be a great Ordinance, Ind there is a great deal of love of Chrift in it. Chrift faw that his Churchhad needof it, that he fhould that night when he was betrayed, have his thoughts buffed about fuch a thing as this is. One would think ac that time, that he had enough to takeup his thoughts concerning himfelf being to encounter with the Law, and with the Wrath of God for mans fin ; but for all that great workChrift had to encounter with, yet his thoughts ere bufied about this great Ordinance of the inftitucion of the Supper, and therefore there was great love in. it, Chrift faw' that
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