A25294:826
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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Doct. 1. The Lord's Supper is a Sacrament of the New Testament, whereby our nourishment and growth in Christ, is sealed unto us.
This is hence gathered, in that bread and wine were the external signs appointed by Christ in this Sacrament, which are the chief means of bodily nourishment, as not only experience, but also the Holy Ghost teacheth us, Psal▪ 10▪ Now, not bread alone, not yet wine alone is used, but both together partly that so the mystery of our spiritual nourishment might be better explained, by such a distribution of the whole into its parts; & partly, that the sufficiency of our nourishment might be thereby declared; to wit, that we need to seek nothing for it one of Christ.
This is hence gathered, in that bread and wine were the external signes appointed by Christ in this Sacrament, which are the chief meanes of bodily nourishment, as not onely experience, but also the Holy Ghost teacheth us, Psal▪ 10▪ Now, not bread alone, not yet wine alone is used, but both together partly that so the mystery of our spiritual nourishment might be better explained, by such a distribution of the whole into its parts; & partly, that the sufficiency of our nourishment might be thereby declared; to wit, that we need to seek nothing for it one of Christ.
Reas. 1. Because as we have the principle of grace and spiritual life in Christ; so also we ought to look for all progress and advancement in Christ by faith. And as the first is signified in Baptism; so this last is most fitly declared in the Lord's Supper. And this is it properly wherein the Supper differs from Baptism.