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

4. But why did he add wine also to this supper, and commanded us to drink thereof in remembrance of him?

I Answer, this addition was for a very good reason, for thereby a further mystery of our Salvation by his bloody death is explained.

1. As first, if you consider that man's natural life is not maintained by eating only, except he drink also, for we may dye as well by thirst as by hunger: Christ therefore by giving us his blood to drink, which is signified by the Cup, as well as his body to eat, doth thereby declare that his suffering of Death for us is every way complete and sufficient for the spiritual and eternal life of our souls. So that as he that hath bread and drink, wants nothing for the sustaining his natural life, so he that hath by Faith an interest in a broken bleeding Christ, wants nothing to the upholding the Soul in a state of acceptance with God, or in a condition of spiritual life, that is the forerunner and earnest of a life of glory.

1. As first, if you consider that man's natural life is not maintained by eating only, except he drink also, for we may dye as well by thirst as by hunger: Christ therefore by giving us his blood to drink, which is signified by the Cup, as well as his body to eat, doth thereby declare that his suffering of Death for us is every way compleat and sufficient for the spiritual and eternal life of our souls. So that as he that hath bread and drink, wants nothing for the sustaining his natural life, so he that hath by Faith an interest in a broken bleeding Christ, wants nothing to the upholding the Soul in a state of acceptance with God, or in a condition of spiritual life, that is the forerunner and earnest of a life of glory.