2. Confirmation and Proof. 2. Without Repentance our Sins cannot be us. 3. Repentance only can put the Soul into a Capacity of enjoying Happiness. USES. 1. Instead of cenfuring others, examine yourfelves whether you have repented. 2. Do not look upon yourselves as fafe and fecure now preferv'd from GOD's Judgments, unless you have repented. 3. As you defire not to perish, repent. [Vid. Vol. VII. Serm. X. p. 322. of this Author's Dif courfes.] S. LUK. S. Lux. xxii. 19. This do in Remembrance of me. N this Verfe here is obfervable, IN 1. The Author of the Sacrament; He. 2. The Rites. 1. He took Bread, and not Himself. 3. And brake it, A&. ii. 42, 46. xλdois tö ägte. 4. Sacra myfteria propriis manibus acceperunt a Diaconis. S. Cyprian. 3. The Words annex'd, This is my Body; that is, Signum corporis fui, Tertull. Gen. xvii. 11. Hac oblatio eft Figura corporis & fanguinis noftri Jefu Chrifti. S. Ambrof. me. 4. The Command; This do in remembrance of Wherein there are two Things, 1. The Command itself; This do. 2. The End; in remembrance of me. I. The Command; This do. 1. This. What is imply'd by that Word ? 2. The first Covenant being broke, He made 3. This Covenant in the old Teftament, GOD fealed, 1. With Tranfitory; as, 1. The cloudy and fiery Pillar, Exod. xiii. 21. 2. Red 2. Red-Sea, Exod. xiv. 22. 4. Water from the Rock, Exod. xvii. 6. 2. With fixed Seals. 1. Circumcifion, Gen. xvii. 10, 11. 4. Under the New Testament, these are chang'd into Baptifm and the Lord'sSapper. 1. Baptifm: Profelytes were circumcis'd, baptiz'd and facrific'd; Maimonid, 2 King. V. 13. 2. The Lord's-Supper inftead of the Passover. 5. These differ from the other in the Signs, Time, &c. 6. But agree, 1. In the Author. 2. 3. Thing fignify'd. 7. The Things that both agree in, make the Effence of a Sacrament in general. This Sacrament therefore is, 1. An Ordinance appointed by Christ, 1 Cor. xi. 23. 0 2. Where the Elements are Bread and Wine, 1 Cor. x. 16. and xi. 24, 25. 3. Under thefe, Chrift with all His Benefits; as, 1. Pardon, Ephef. i. 7. S. Matt. xxvi. 28. 2. Juftification, Isa. liii. 11. 2 Cor. V. 21. 3. Sanctification, Act. iii. 26. S. Matt. i. 21. 4. Adoption, S. Joh. i. 12. Are, Are, 1. Represented, 1 Cor. xi. 25, 26. 2. Offer'd, Ifa. lv. 1. S. Matt. xi. 28, 29. 4. Seal'd, Rom. iv. 11. unto the worthy 1. Repents. 2. Acquaints himself with the Na- xi. 29. 3. Believeth. 2. The Act: Do, that is, administer and receive this Sacrament. II. The End. In remembrance of me. Where every Circumstance reprefents fomething of Christ. 34. 1. The Confecration, A&t. ii. 23. 2. The Bread, His Body. of 3. The breaking of the Bread, Ifa. liii. §. 6. The offering Both to the Receiver, Ifa. lv. I. 7. The Hymn, S. Matt. xxvi. 30. When therefore you do it, remember 1. How much Chrift fuffer'd. 2. Who He was that fuffer'd. 3. Why He fuffer'd. 4. What Benefits we have, or may have Therefore, do this in Remembrance of Confidering, 1. How ungrateful it is not to do it. 3. How t 3. How ye can fhew and prove yourfelves to be Chriftians, unless you do it. 4. The Apostles and first Christians did it frequently. 5. It is the most heavenly Work ye can do. 6. You will one Day wish you had done it. 7. It is Chrift's Command; and with what Face can you appear before Him, if you live and die in the Neglect of it? S. LUK. |