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

Now saith the Apostle of the Legal sacrifices, v. 18. they which eat thereof are partakers of the Altar; that is, are partakers of the blessings of that God to whom that altar is erected, and to whom those sacrifices are offered. And not only so, but there is yet a further meaning, which is, that those that eat of the Altar do thereby declare that they take the God of that Altar to be their God, from whom they expect all that good they are capable of in this life, and that which is to come, and likewise they thereby declare that him, and him only will they worship and serve. Now this engagement of themselves to God signified by eating of the sacrifice, is that fellowship spoken of v. 20. where the Apostle further tells you that there is the very same intendment in those sacrifices that are offered to Devils, and the peoples eating of those feasts that attended those sacrifices; they thereby did signify that they took those Devils to be their Gods, and resolved for the future to worship and serve them as Gods, which is the proper meaning of that 20 v. But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God, and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils, i.e. I would that you would not associate with devils, or enter into a confederacy with them to serve and worship them, as the Idol-feasts do signify. Now if the Idol-feasts signified the confederacy betwixt the Devils and their worshippers, so also did the feast that attended the Jewish sacrifice signify a fellowship betwixt the true God and his worshippers, whereby the true God was acknowledged as their God, and that they would worship and serve him only. Thus the Apostle having illustrated the meaning of eating of the Jewish and also of the Gentile sacrifice, he proceeds to accommodate those notions to that of the Lord's Table, v. 21. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of Devils: ye cannot be partakes of the Lord's Table, and of the table of devils. The meaning is this; you cannot serve two such contrary Masters as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, and devils also:

Now saith the Apostle of the Legal sacrifices, v. 18. they which eat thereof are partakers of the Altar; that is, are partakers of the blessings of that God to whom that altar is erected, and to whom those sacrifices are offered. And not only so, but there is yet a further meaning, which is, that those that eat of the Altar do thereby declare that they take the God of that Altar to be their God, from whom they expect all that good they are capable of in this life, and that which is to come, and likewise they thereby declare that him, and him only will they worship and serve. Now this engagement of themselves to God signified by eating of the sacrifice, is that fellowship spoken of v. 20. where the Apostle further tells you that there is the very same intendment in those sacrifices that are offered to Devils, and the peoples eating of those feasts that attended those sacrifices; they thereby did signifie that they took those Devils to be their Gods, and resolved for the future to worship and serve them as Gods, which is the proper meaning of that 20 v. But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God, and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils, i.e. I would that you would not associate with devils, or enter into a confederacy with them to serve and worship them, as the Idol-feasts do signifie. Now if the Idol-feasts signified the confederacy betwixt the Devils and their worshippers, so also did the feast that attended the Jewish sacrifice signifie a fellowship betwixt the true God and his worshippers, whereby the true God was acknowledged as their God, and that they would worship and serve him only. Thus the Apostle having illustrated the meaning of eating of the Jewish and also of the Gentile sacrifice, he proceeds to accommodate those notions to that of the Lord's Table, v. 21. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of Devils: ye cannot be partakes of the Lord's Table, and of the table of devils. The meaning is this; you cannot serve two such contrary Masters as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, and devils also: