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2. Christ and his Disciples when they administered and received the Lords Supper, (which was a Church Act) they were an entire Congregation. And they after Supper sung a Psalm or Hymn, Mat. 26.30. To say, that one sang it, and the other joined in Spirit, saying Amen, hath no foot-hold in the Text. It might as well be said, they all took the bread, they all blessed it, and brake it, and gave it, in that one did it, and all the rest joined in Spirit, and consented, and like enough to the blessing of it, said Amen.

2. Christ and his Disciples when they administred and received the Lords Supper, (which was a Church Act) they were an entire Congregation. And they after Supper sung a Psalme or Hymne, Mat. 26.30. To say, that one sang it, and the other joyned in Spirit, saying Amen, hath no foot-hold in the Text. It might as well be said, they all tooke the bread, they all blessed it, and brake it, and gave it, in that one did it, and all the rest joyned in Spirit, and consented, and like enough to the blessing of it, said Amen.

3. It is no strain of wit, but a solid and judicious exposition of the fourth Chapter of the Revelation, to make it a description of a ⟨p. 41⟩particular visible Church of Christ, according to the platform and pattern of the New Testament: where, as the four living Creatures, are the four sorts of Officers, so the twenty-four Elders set forth the brethren in the Church, who are as Elders (in respect of their ripe age, Gal. 4.1, 2, 3.) and twenty-four, in number, answering to the twenty-four Orders of Priests and Levites, 1 Chron. 25.9. &c. And these are all said to join together in singing a new Song unto the Lamb,