Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

First, From the solemn nature and ¹ends of this Ordinance; for what is the express design and use of it, but a lively representation of the Lords death, 1 Cor. 11. 26. As often as ye eat this Bread, and drink this Cup, ye do show the Lords death till he come. Jesus Christ is therein set forth Crucified before us, and not to make a bare representation of it to us, as a thing wherein we have no personal interest or concernment, but to represent his death lively, and seal our title to it firmly: This is my body which is broken for you, ver. 24.

First, From the solemn nature and ¹ends of this Ordinance; for what is the express design and use of it, but a lively representation of the Lords death, 1 Cor. 11. 26. As often as ye eat this Bread, and drink this Cup, ye do shew the Lords death till he come. Jesus Christ is therein set forth Crucified before us, and not to make a bare representation of it to us, as a thing wherein we have no personal interest or concernment, but to represent his death lively, and seal our title to it firmly: This is my body which is broken for you, ver. 24.

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Now which of these is to be attended with a dead, careless, and slight spirit? Is it the representation of Christs death? God forbid. O, if there be any subject of Meditation in the world able to drink up the very spirits of a man, this is it.

Now which of these is to be attended with a dead, careless, and slight spirit? Is't the representation of Christs death? God forbid. O, if there be any subject of Meditation in the world able to drink up the very spirits of a man, this is it.