Chapx6. according to St M A T T H ß V v. 5'81 whether they be things to come ( as to thefe Difciples )or things paff, asnow to us. A communicant muff call up his faith, and befpeak it as Deborah did her fell, 7udg.5. t 2. e1u'ake, awake Deborah, utter a Fong. Afcend up to heaven in the aft ofrecei- ving, and fetch down Chrift :. lean by faithupon his bleffedbo- forne, cleave to his mile, fuck hony out of' this rock, and oyle out of the flinty rock, Deut.3a.13. a infra ipfd redemptorie vulnera figite linguam, as- Cyprian exprefleth it. Let faith have herperfeft work : fith the is both the hand, mouth, and ifomack ofthe foul. For remifon of f nnes ] This includes all the benefits ofthe new covenant, all the purchafe of Chriffs paflion, (weedy fealed up to every faithfull receiver. Chrift inffituted his holy (upper, unquam xxfcernie1ov,id txexov a foveraign prefervative or purga- tive,faith Ignatius. And by this Sacrament we are fenced and and ffrengthned agairtff the devil and all his aflaults, faithChry- fhom, fo that he ihunneth us, as ifwewere fo many lions .ffet- ting fireat him. Verse 29. I will not drin&hencefrth ] So he takes his farewell of hisDifciples : alluding, likely, to that cuffom among themof drinking no more, till the next day after they had drunk, each his part, of theparting. cup. Drinks it newwith you in myFathers kingdom] Underffand it either of thekingdom of grace ( Peterfaith, that he and others did eat and drinkwithChrift after he rofe from the dead, Aa. i o. 41. we alfo feaff with him dayly by faith, at his table efpecially, where he is both feaff-maker and feaff-mafler,) Or of his king- domofglory, frequently and fitly fet forth by the fimilitudeofa fumptuous supper, Matth, 8. Luk, 4. &c. fuck as towhich all other feasts are but hunger. Verte 3o. And when they bad ßng an hymne] The Jews at the Paffeovet fang the great Hallelujah, thatis the hundred and thirteenth Pfalme,. with the five following Pfalmes. This they began to fing, after that dimiiiory cup aforementioned. At all times we fhould fing Hallelujahs, with grace inour hearts to the Lord : but at the Sacrament the great Hallelujah, the Hofanna Rabbah. We fhould credit the feaff by our fpirituall jollity, shoutingas a giant after his wine, tinging and making melody to the Lord inour hearts. CbryVommaketh mention.of an hymne of thankfgiving, wont tobe oled by the Monksof his time, after they qp. de aæna Dom. 1t4 ut not fugi. at tanquan:.fs, leoazr igneta exfpuentei eire. mua. Chiyfolt. Poculumúa*o,; t`u7rr.r Hom 5y. :in Marsh.
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