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Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…
Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumes lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumns lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1653
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 second thing in the institution is, That the Bread being taken by the Minister, is to be blessed, broken, and then to be given; Christ took it, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it: and the people they are to look upon all this, to look upon the Ministers taking, blessing, breaking, and giving; and then the Cup by its self: we find Christ in Matth. 26. 27. he first ⟨p. 264⟩blest the Bread, and then he blest the Cup distinctly by it self, saying, This is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for many, for the remission of sins; and you shall observe that the text saith, he drank it and said drink ye all of it; so that this is not according to the institution, for a Minister to go up and down, and to give it into every mans hand; certainly this was not so from the beginning; this is a way of mans own devising; for the bread and the cup to be given into every bodies hand by the Minister: Christ did but give it once, he gave it to them all, and said, Drink ye all of this, so it was done.
Quest. But you will say, Is it not better for to be given into every ones hand?
Answ. No, because that the giving of it once for all, doth signify more fully the fellowship and communion that they have together; as at a Table it were a strange thing that every bit of meat must be given to every one particularly; no, but the dishes must be set before them, and they must take it themselves: Indeed if they be children you cut every piece of meat, and give it into their hands or mouths; but that's suitable to a fellowship at Table, and Communion; to have the meat set before them, being blest, and then for all to partake of it.