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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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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.
The third part of the Eucharist is the OFFER and PARTICIPATION: in which the Minister Representing Christ, doth by Commission deliver his Body and Blood to the penitent, hungry, believing soul! and with Christ is delivered a sealed •••don of all sin, and a sealed gift of life Eternal. All which are received by the true Believer.
The third part of the Eucharist is the OFFER and PARTICIPATION: in which the Minister Representing Christ, doth by Commission deliver his Bedy and Blood to the penitent, hungry, believing soul! and with Christ is delivered a sealed •••don of all sin, and a sealed gift of life Eternal. All which are received by the true Believer.
An unbeliever knoweth not what transactions there are between the Lord and a holy soul in this Ordinance, where the appearances are so small. A bit of bread and a sup of wine are indeed small matters: But so is not this Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. What a comfort is it that the offended Majesty will accept a sacrifice at our hands, and enter a treaty of Peace with the offenders? Yea that he will provide the sacrifice himself, and the preciousest in the whole world: that he will signify this his acceptance of the sacrifice, and how he is pleased in his well-beloved Son! and that he accepteth his Sons Intercession in the Heavens, and his Ministers intercession, and his Churches prayers on earth through Christ! Seeing Christ […] be glorified with his Father, and not continue visible among […] what could we desire more from him, then the three fold Resentative which he hath left behind him, to supply the room his Bodily presence! Even the Representation of himself by […], by his Ministers, and by the Holy Ghost, which is […] substitute within for the efficacy of all. O what unspeakable