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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 12: How may it appear to be every Christian's indispensable Duty to partake of the Lord's S…
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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.
2. But again, if you consider the nature of the drink which he hath appointed, it is wine and not water: By it may be signified thus much; that as there is no sort of drink so grateful to the palate, so reviving and strengthening to the spirits, so that spiritual life that the Soul is raised to by the Death of Christ, is a life of the greatest pleasure and joy that is conceivable; for as no liquor like Wine doth cheer a sad drooping spirit, so nothing doth so glad and cheer the Soul as Faith in a Crucified Christ, according to that of the Apostle Peter, in whom, though we have not seen,