Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…

and the rather, because this is not only from the example of Christ, that he did so, though that's some what; but because it hath a spiritual significancy in it, and that's the reason that it should be done: we find in Luke, 22. 26. the institution of the Sacrament; Now mark, upon their coming, and being with Christ at the Table, saith Christ in the 29, and 30. verses, And I appoint unto you a Kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me, that you may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdom, and sit on Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel: He spake it upon that occasion of the Disciples sitting with him at the Table, when they did eat Bread; and when they took the Cup; upon that occasion Christ spake to his Disciples, and said, I appoint you a Kingdom, that ye may eat and drink at my Table, in my Kingdom, that ye may eat and drink the twelve Tribes of Israel; as if Christ should say, You can sit with me at my table here, and know, that this sitting with me at my Table, it is but as it were a preludium, a foresignification of the Communion that you shall have with me in my Kingdom; you shall have that familiar Communion with me when I come into my Kingdom, there to sit (as it were) with me, to join with me in my Kingdom, judging the twelve Tribes of Israel; even as you do now in that holy Fellowship join with me in sitting at my Table: This is the meaning of Christ, so that the gesture in the Sacrament is not a mere indifferent thing; heretofore it hath been thought unreasonable ⟨p. 263⟩to contend for what Gesture we should use.

and the rather, because this is not only from the example of Christ, that he did so, though that's some what; but because it hath a spiritual significancy in it, and that's the reason that it should be done: we find in Luke, 22. 26. the institution of the Sacrament; Now mark, upon their coming, and being with Christ at the Table, saith Christ in the 29, and 30. verses, And I appoint unto you a Kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me, that you may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdom, and sit on Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel: He spake it upon that occasion of the Disciples sitting with him at the Table, when they did eat Bread; and when they took the Cup; upon that occasion Christ spake to his Disciples, and said, I appoint you a Kingdom, that ye may eat and drink at my Table, in my Kingdom, that ye may eat and drink the twelve Tribes of Israel; as if Christ should say, You can sit with me at my table here, and know, that this sitting with me at my Table, it is but as it were a preludium, a foresignification of the Communion that you shal have with me in my Kingdom; you shall have that familiar Communion with me when I come into my Kingdom, there to sit (as it were) with me, to joyn with me in my Kingdom, judging the twelve Tribes of Israel; even as you do now in that holy Fellowship joyn with me in sitting at my Table: This is the meaning of Christ, so that the gesture in the Sacrament is not a meer indifferent thing; heretofore it hath been thought unreasonable