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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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2. The end of the Duty, and that is, in remembrance of me. Here are two things to be inquired into.
I. What reason was there for the instituting an Ordinance for his remembrance?
II. Why of all the acts and expressions of his love to sinners above all he would be remembered in his sufferings for us, which is the special signification of this Supper?
II. Why of all the acts and expressions of his love to sinners above all he would be remembred in his sufferings for us, which is the special signification of this Supper?
(1) To the first I say, you must call to mind, that the time of instituting this supper was the night before that day he died. Now the consequent of his Death was to be this, that he should be taken from Earth to Heaven, there to be personally present till the day of judgment: Now that his Church on Earth might not forget him in this long absence, he therefore appointed this supper for a frequent quickening them to the remembrance of him till he came again.