1pttiouz Eat* Love of God irradiating a Prayer is a ravifh- ing fight, far better than life and all its com- forts. It may be there is a tranfmutation of the Biding into another ; fuch as God, who improves the flock of Prayer to the beft ad- vantage, knows to be better for us. David prayed earnefily for his fck Child, and the re- turn of it was in a Solomon, a jedidiah beloved of God. One way or other the Believers Prayer returns into his boforn, being anfwered at leali f cundum cardinem , according to the main hinge and (cope of it , which is Gods glory and Mans comfort or happinefs. Thus Mofes's Prayer to go into Canaan was at fwe- red according to the ground of it. Inflead of the type God takes him up to Heaven the true Canaan, which was moli for M. f s's comfort ; And inftead of Mifes a type of the Law, f oíhrca type of Cbri(l leads the people into Canaan, which was moli for Gods Glory. Which way foever the Prayer returns to the Believer, it feals upthe Ordinance for Divine. In the laft Place I come to the Ordinance of the Lord Supper: The outward Elements of this Sacrament our Lord Chritl took (as Lear- ned Men conceive) from a cuftom obferved among the ferns at the Paffeover, at the end of the Celebration whereof, the Father of the Far mily was wont to take a Cake of Bread, and after the bleffing thereof to break and difri- bute it to the Communicants ; and alfo after that a Cup of Wine in like fort, unto which fume refer that Cnp of Salvation, Pfal. 116 i 3. Cc 4 The 375
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