A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

This also is easily answered, I say therefore, that such a pompous feast you talk of had not so well comported with his principal end in the institution: for Christ did not in this Supper intend the filling of your bellies, but the refreshing of your souls: it was not instituted for that end as the Feast of first-fruits among the Jews, for the remembrance of God's blessing of the earth and giving them full harvests, but for the remembrance of things of a higher nature, of things invisible, spiritual and eternal, as the saving you from sin, the law, from the grave and hell, which were all procured by the breaking of Christ's body, and the pouring out his blood for you; now your magnificent feasts were not so fitted for such a Commemoration, for they rather would have tended to have clogged your spirits, made them dull and stupid, and far less apt ⟨p. 233⟩to have contemplated such Divine and Heavenly things as those now named are: And therefore that this Supper is so mean as it is, it is far better, than if it were so great and royal as you conceive.

This also is easily answered, I say therefore, that such a pompous feast you talk of had not so well comported with his principal end in the institution: for Christ did not in this Supper intend the filling of your bellies, but the refreshing of your souls: it was not instituted for that end as the Feast of first-fruits among the Jews, for the remembrance of God's blessing of the earth and giving them full harvests, but for the remembrance of things of a higher nature, of things invisible, spiritual and eternal, as the saving you from sin, the law, from the grave and hell, which were all procured by the breaking of Christ's body, and the pouring out his blood for you; now your magnificent feasts were not so fitted for such a Commemoration, for they rather would have tended to have clog'd your spirits, made them dull and stupid, and far less apt ⟨p. 233⟩to have contemplated such Divine and Heavenly things as those now named are: And therefore that this Supper is so mean as it is, it is far better, than if it were so great and royal as you conceive.