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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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We have here Communion with the blessed Trinity, in th• three parts of this Eucharistical Sacrament! As the Father […] both our Creator and the offended Majesty, and yet he hath […] his Son to be our Redeemer; so in the first part, which […] ⟨p. 291⟩the CONSECRATION, we present to our Creator the creatures of Bread and Wine, acknowledging that from him we receive them and all, and we desire that upon our Dedication, by his Acceptance, they may be made Sacramentally and Representatively the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
We have here Communion with the blessed Trinity, in th• three parts of this Eucharistical Sacrament! As the Father 〈…〉 both our Creator and the offended Majesty, and yet he hath 〈…〉 his Son to be our Redeemer; so in the first part, which 〈…〉 ⟨p. 291⟩the CONSECRATION, we present to our Creator the creatures of Bread and Wine, acknowledging that from him we receive them and all, and we desire that upon our Dedication, by his Acceptance, they may be made Sacramentally and Representatively the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
In the second part of the Eucharist, which is the COMMEMORATION of the sacrifice offered on the Cross, we break the bread and pour forth the wine, to Represent the breaking of Christs Body, and shedding of his Blood for the sin of man; and we beseech the Father to be Reconciled to us on his Sons account, and to accept us in his Beloved, and to accept all our sacrifices through him. So that as Christ now in Heaven, is Representing his sacrifice to the Father, which he once offered on the Cross for sin, so must the Minister of Christ Represent and plead to the Father the same sacrifice by way of Commemoration, and such Intercession as belongeth to his Office.