AND as the Author, so the Circumstances of the Institution do not a little add unto the excellency of this Sacrament: first for the circumstance of Time; 1It was the same night wherein he was betrayed:2 in the evening ⟨p. 25⟩and after Supper. In the evening or night, a time fit to prefigure a passion, and eclipse, his especially who was the Sun of righteousness, and the light of the world; a passion that brought darkness on the very fountain of light, the Sun, even in the midday: In the evening, 3to note that now the fullness of time was come, wherein Christ was to accomplish the redemption of the world. In the evening or twilight when the Passover was celebrated, learn from the condition of the time the nature as of that Legal,4 so in some sort of this Evangelical Sacrament; it is but a shadow and dark representation of that light which shall be revealed. It hath but the glimmerings, and faint resemblances of that mercy which redeemed us, of that glory which expecteth us. In the evening at the eating of the Paschal Lamb, to note that Christs active obedience to the commands of the Law went together with his passive obedience to the curse and penalty of the Law.5 He first celebrated the Passover that therein he might restifie his performance of the Law, and then he instituted his own Supper, that therein he might prefigure his suffering of the Law.6 In the evening after the Passover, to signify the abolishing both of the Evening, and of the Passover, the plucking away of Moses his veil, of all those dark & misty prefigurations of that light, which was within a few days to rise upon the world. ⟨p. 26⟩He would first celebrate the Passover, and there nullify it,7 to make it appear unto the world that he did not therefore abrogate that holy ordinance, because he oppugned it, but because he fulfilled it, and therefore to the substance he joins the shadow, the Lamb of the Jews, to the Lamb of God, the true sacrifice, to that which was typical, that the brightness of the one, might abolish and swallow up the shadow of other. In the evening at the time of unleavened bread, to signify that we also (it is the Inference of the Apostle) should keep our Feast not with the leavened bread of malice,8 or of wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth:
AND as the Author, so the Circumstances of the Institution do not a little adde unto the excellency of this Sacrament: first for the circumstance of Time; 1It was the same night wherein he was betrayed:2 in the evening ⟨p. 25⟩and after Supper. In the evening or night, a time fit to prefigure a passion, and eclipse, his especially who was the Sunne of righteousnesse, and the light of the world; a passion that brought darknesse on the very fountaine of light, the Sunne, even in the midday: In the evening, 3to note that now the fulnesse of time was come, wherein Christ was to accomplish the redemption of the world. In the evening or twylight when the Passeover was celebrated, learne from the condition of the time the nature as of that Legall,4 so in some sort of this Evangelicall Sacrament; it is but a shaddow and dark representation of that light which shall be revealed. It hath but the glimmerings, and faint resemblances of that mercy which redeemed us, of that glory which expecteth us. In the evening at the eating of the Paschall Lamb, to note that Christs active obedience to the commands of the Law went together with his passive obedience to the curse and penaltie of the Law.5 He first celebrated the Passeover that therein he might restifie his performance of the Law, and then he instituted his own Supper, that therin he might prefigure his suffring of the Law.6 In the evening after the Passeover, to signifie the abolishing both of the Evening, and of the Passeover, the plucking away of Moses his vail, of all those dark & misty prefiguratiōs of that light, which was within a few dayes to rise upon the world. ⟨p. 26⟩He would first celebrate the Passeover, and there nullifie it,7 to make it appeare unto the world that he did not therefore abrogate that holy ordinance, because he oppugn'd it, but because hee fulfil'd it, and therefore to the substance hee joynes the shaddow, the Lamb of the Jewes, to the Lamb of God, the true sacrifice, to that which was typicall, that the brightnesse of the one, might abolish and swallow up the shaddow of other. In the evening at the time of unleavened bread, to signifie that we also (it is the Inference of the Apostle) should keep our Feast not with the leavened bread of malice,
- 11 Cor. 11.
- 2Matth. 26. 20.
- 3Chrysost. in Matth. 26.
- 4Exod. 12. 6.
- 5Chrysost. Tom. 5. serm. 80. de proditione Judae.Chrysost. Tom. 5. serm. 80. de proditione Iudae.
- 6Id sacrificium successit omnibus Sacramentis veteris Testamenti. Aug. Civ. Dei l. 17. •. 20.
- 7[Greek or Hebrew] Chrysost.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Chrysost.
- 81 Cor. 5. 7.
