Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

A Summary of the several Chapters contained in this Book.

A Summary of the severall Chapters contained in this Booke.

Chap. 1. Mans Being, to be employed in working: that working is directed unto some good, which is God, that good a free, and voluntary reward, which we here enjoy, only in the right of a promise, the scale of which promise is a Sacrament. pag. 1. Chap. 2. Sacraments are earnests, and shadows of our expected glory made unto the senses. p. 6. Chap. 3. Inferences of practise from the former observations. p. 10. Chap. 4. Whence Sacraments derive their value, and being, namely, from the Author that instituted them. p. 15. Chap. 5. Inferences of practise from the Author of this Sacrament. p. 19. Chap. 6. Of the Circumstances of the institution, namely, the time, and place. p. 24. Chap. 7. Of the matter of the Lords Supper, Bread, and Wine, with their Analogy unto Christ. pag. 32. Chap. 8. Practical inferences from the materials of the Lords Supper. p. 40. ⟨image 139⟩Ch. 9. Of the Analogy and proportion between the holy actions used by Christ in this Sacrament, and Christ himself who is the substance of it. p. 45. Ch. 10. Of the fourth action, with the reasons why the Sacrament is to be eaten and drunken. p. 53. Chap. 11. Of other reasons, why the Sacrament is eaten, and drunken, and of the manner of our union, and incorporation into Christ. p. 60. Chap. 12. Inferences of Practise from the consideration of the former actions. p. 72 Chap. 13. Of the two first ends, or effects of the Sacrament, namely, the exhibition of Christ to the Church, and the union of the Church to Christ. Of the real Presence. p. 81. Chap. 14. Of three other ends of this holy Sacrament, the fellowship, or union of the faithful, the obsignation of the Covenant of Grace, and the abrogation of the Passover. p. 102. Chap. 15. The last end of this holy Sacrament, namely, the Celebration, and memory of Christs death. A brief collection of all the benefits which are by his death conveyed on the Church. The question touching the quality of temporal punishments stated. p. 116. Chap. 16. Of the manner after which we are to celebrate the memory of Christs passion. p. 137. Chap. 17. Inferences of practise from the several ends of this holy Sacrament. p. 148 Chap. 18. Of the subject, who may with best benefit receive the holy Sacrament, with the necessary qualification thereunto, of the necessity of due