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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. Those that have fellowship with God in Christ, they are those Christ hath obliged by his command to partake of this supper.
This is another qualification the Apostle gives us in 1 Cor. 10.18, 20, 21. where discoursing of the nature of Divine and likewise of Diabolical sacrifices, & of the reason of the Priests and Peoples eating some part thereof, he also shows the reason of our partaking of the Lord's Table, which (though it is not properly a sacrifice that is there offered, yet it) holds some resemblance unto the sacrifices of the Law and to the Peoples eating thereof, inasmuch as it is a Commemoration of that one sacrifice Christ offered up to the Father for our sins, of the benefits of which one sacrifice, those that communicate at the Lord's Table do as effectually partake, as if Christ was offered up as often as you there do eat and drink.
This is another qualification the Apostle gives us in 1 Cor. 10.18, 20, 21. where discoursing of the nature of Divine and likewise of Diabolical sacrifices, & of the reason of the Priests and Peoples eating some part thereof, he also shews the reason of our partaking of the Lord's Table, which (though it is not properly a sacrifice that is there offered, yet it) holds some resemblance unto the sacrifices of the Law and to the Peoples eating thereof, inasmuch as it is a Commemoration of that one sacrifice Christ offered up to the Father for our sins, of the benefits of which one sacrifice, those that communicate at the Lord's Table do as effectually partake, as if Christ was offered up as often as you there do eat and drink.