I. THE NATURE OF THE ORDINANCE SHEWN. Wherein the careless sinner is admonished, the formalist detected and WITH MEDITATIONS AND HELPS FOR PRAYER BY THE REV. T. HAWEIS, LL.B. AND M.D. Rector of All Saints, Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire; and Chaplain to the late Countess of Huntingdon. THE TENTH EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, 39, LUDGATE STREET. BY W. BAXTER, OXFORD. 1818. 14041. f. 35 THE ORIGINAL PREFACE. THE following Treatise upon the Sacrament was drawn up at Oxford. It was part of a course of Catechetical Lectures on Sunday afternoons. It pleased God, at the time of delivery, to bless them greatly to the instruction and edification of the people. I pray the Spirit of all grace, that he would still accompany them with his blessing. Reader, thou wilt find three points chiefly proposed in this work. First, To open the conscience to a discovery of its guilt and misery, its great need of Jesus, and the salvation which is in him. This is the leading point in our most holy religion; a soul unawakened to a sense of sin, and unaffected with the views of his own inbred corruption, and departure from God, can have no more business at the Lord's table, than a man in health hath for a physician. Secondly, To explain the true nature of the Lord's Supper, the intention of it, and the privileges therein conferred on the faithful. And here Jesus must needs be the Alpha and Omega. The institution is his, the things signified are his Body and Blood, the blessings conferred are all purchased by him, and freely bestowed on his covenant people. In short, Christ is here peculiarly all in all. |