20 ~ SERMON on 11Jito 11s; tl·ofe m11flueeds be /ook.fd·at by all Chriflians,in the lik.f proportion to have heen tbe main Ends and P11rpojes of hi< Deatb to be remembred. So that we' may argue muru,lly, from what were the Ends of Chrifl:'s Death, unto what muO: needs be the defigncd lntcndmems of thts Sacrament: And we may as certainly conclude and infer to our ldves, what were the lntendments of his Death, by what are the genuine Ends of that Sacrament. Thefe anfwer to each other, as the Image in the GbfS dotb to the principal Lineaments in the Face; the Imprefs on the \ Vax, to that in the Seal; the Action, the Sign, and R.emembrances to the thing fignificd, and to be rcmembred. ' Now it is evident, that Chrifl: upon his Death inftituted that Supper, as to be a Seal of that Covenant of Grace between God and us_, ratified thereby; fo alfo to be aCommumon,the htghefl:ounvard Pledg, Rattficauon,and TeftimonyofLove and Amity 3mong hisMembers themfelves. And accordingly,it being in thecommon nature ofit a Feall, look as betweenGod and l1S, 'twas ordained to be Ep11hmtjiEde– r«le, a Covenant-Fcof'r between btm and us, (the evtdence whereof lies in this tbat he invites us to his Table as Friends, and as thofe he is at Peace withall and reconciled unto): So in like manner between the Saintsthemfelves, it was ;s evi– dently ordained to be aSyntaxis, a Love-Feafl:, in that they eat and drink to– gether at one and the C1me Table, and fo become, as the Apofl:le fays, one Bread. And again, look as between God and us, to !hew, that the procurement of this Peace and R.cconciliation between him and us, was this very Sacrifice of Chrift's Death, (as that which made our Peace) God therefore invitesus, pofJ Sacriftci– um oUdt:m, afcer the Sacrifice offered up, to eat of the Symboles of it ; that is of Bread a:1cl Wine, which are the Signs and Symbols of his Body and Blood fa~ cr;ficd:l for l'eare: So in like manner cloth this hold, as to the 'Peace between our !elves. And we may infer, that we were,_ throu~h the offering up thereof, rt.:onci' c'l one to another, and ~11 mutual Ennnttes Oam and done a_way thereby, in that ve cot together thereof m a Commumon, whtch was a Sacnfice once of– fern!, but now fcaftcd upon together.; and cloth !hew, that Chrifl:ians, of all profcflions or relations ofMen, have the fl:rongefl: Obligations unto mutual Love and Charity ; for the Bread broken, and the Cup, are the Symbols of their Saviour's Body and Blood once made a Sacrifice; and therefore they eating there– of together, as of a Feafl: after a Sacrifice, do !hew forththis Union and Agree– mcqt to have been the avowed Purchafe and Impetration ofthe Body and Blood fo tJcrificed. There wos a Controverfy of late Years fomented by fame, through 'Popijb Compliances, Tl•at the Lord's S11ppcr might be jlilcd a Sacrifice, theTable an Altar, which produced in the difcuffwn of it (as all Comroverfies do in the iffue fome further Truth) the diR:overy of this true Decifion of it: That it was not a Sacrifice, but a Fcafl: after and upon Chri!t's facrificing of himfelf, 'Participatio S.ntifdi, as Tcrtlllli,m calls it, a facrificial Fea£!, commemorating and c~mfirming all thole Ends for which the only true and proper Sacnfice of Chn!l: was offered up, and fo this Feaft a vifible Ratification of all fuch Ends, whereof this iscvidcmly one.
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