A27107:858
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The fifth end of the Lords Supper.
5. To be an assured pledge unto us of our Resurrection. The Resurrection of a Christian is Twofold, First the aspiritual Resurrection of our Souls in this life, from the death of sin, called the first Resurrection: because that by the Trumpet-voice of Christ, in the preaching of the Gospel, we are raised from the death of sin, to the life of Grace: bBlessed and holy is he (saith St. John) who hath part in the first Resurrection: for on such the second death hath no power: The* Lord's Supper is both a mean and a pledge unto us, of ⟨p. 325⟩this spiritual and first Resurrection.c He that eateth me, even he shall live by me. And then we are fit guests to sit dat the table with Christ, when like Lazarus, we are raised from the death of sin, to newness of life,
- aJoh. 5. 25. Rom. 6. 4, 5, 12.
- bRev. 20. 6.
- *Hinc apud priscos Sacramentum baptismi appellabatur, Salus, Sacramen••m verò Dominici corporis, Vita. Aug. lib. 1 de peccatorum meii c. 14.