• Holy $acrament. 323 w-as burnt on the alt,7r, and a part was eat– en by thofe for whon1 they were offered; fo our bldfed Sa:viour, having offered up himfelf on the altar of the crofi, as a pro– J>itiation for the fins of men,-did fubHitute thefe holy fymbols in place ofhis body and blood, that we, by feafling on them, n1ight get an interefi: in that facrifice, and be par- · takers of the atonement that was .made, and the pardon that was pt1rchafed by him. Again, In this L1cran1ent, Chrifi cloth convey himfelf into the fouls of met1, ·and · taketh flronger poffeffion of them. As af– ter the fop Satan entered into Judas, fo with theie holy elements Chrift entereth into the hearts ,of his people, becon1es the food .and nouriihment of their (ouls: · he diffufeth himfelf through all their facul– ties, and aoin1atcs them with his life and ·~ fpirit; that they may have no will or a~ections of their own, no defires or inClinati– ons different from his; but that every pulfe Jnay anfwer the n1otions of his heart, and all their powers be aCtuated and enlivened by his Spirit; in a word, that it may not. .be any more they, but Chrifl that liveth i1z them* Thus are we (ed and nouriihed by the body and blood of Chrifr, w~ile the power ~ Gal. ii. :io.
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