The Practice of Piety

Of the fourth end of the Lords Supper.

4 To feed the Souls of the faithful in the assured hope of life everlasting: for this Sacrament is a Sign and pledge unto as many as shall receive the same according to Christs Institution, that he vvill according to his promise, by the virtue of his crucified body and blood as verily feed our souls to lie eternal, as our bodies are by Bread ⟨p. 699⟩and Wine nourished to this temporal life. And to this end Christ in the action of the Sacrament, really giveth his very body and blood to every faithful Receiver. Therefore the Sacrament is called the Communion of the Body and Blood of the Lord. ¹And communication is not of things absent but present: neither were it the Lords Supper, if the Lords Body and Blood were not there. Christ is verily present in the Sacrament, by a double union: whereof the first is spiritual, twixt Christ and the worthy Receiver: the second is Sacramental, twixt the body and blood of Christ, and the outward Signs in the Sacrament. The former is ⟨p. 700⟩wrought by means that the same holy Spirit dwelling in Christ and in the Faithful, ^*incorporateth the Faithful, as Members, unto Christ their Head, and so makes them one with Christ, and partakers of all the Graces, Life, Holiness, and eternal Glory, which is in him: as sure and as verily as they hear the words of the promise, ³and are partakers of the outward Signs of the holy Sacrament. Hence it is that the vvill of Christ, is a true Christians vvill: and the Christians life is Christ who liveth in him. Gal. 2.20. If you look to the things that are united; this Union is essential: If to the Truth of this Union; it is