Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

Again, when thou seest the Minister offering the bread and wine to the Communicants, then by the eye of Faith see Gods love in offering his Son to every believing Communicant. For as verily as the Minister doth offer the bread and the wine, so truly doth God really offer Christ, with all the benefits of his death and ⟨p. 128⟩passion to every believing Communicant. I do not say carnally, but really; not the flesh of Christ, but Christ with all the benefits of his death and passion, as Reconciliation, Redemption, Remission of sins, &c. For there is not a mere Representation, but a real and true exhibition of Christ, as broken for our sins.

Again, when thou seest the Minister offering the bread and wine to the Communicants, then by the eye of Faith see Gods love in offering his Son to every beleeving Communicant. For as verily as the Minister doth offer the bread and the wine, so truly doth God really offer Christ, with all the benefits of his death and ⟨p. 128⟩passion to every beleeving Communicant. I do not say carnally, but really; not the flesh of Christ, but Christ with all the benefits of his death and passion, as Reconciliation, Redemption, Remission of sins, &c. For there is not a meer Representation, but a real and true exhibition of Christ, as broken for our sins.

II. Another act of Faith to be exercised at the Lords Supper, is to receive Jesus Christ. For the Believer having seen Christ with the eye of Faith under the outward elements, and forementioned rites, then he receiveth him into his heart with much joy and gladness. As therefore thou stretchest forth the hand of thy body to receive the bread and wine, stretch forth the hand of Faith to apprehend and receive Jesus Christ, and to rest upon him for life and for salvation. For Faith is that instrument whereby we receive Christ and all his benefits, as they are offered to us in the Gospel, and sealed up to us in the Sacrament. Faith is to the soul, as the hand is to the body, that which is offered to a man for his good, the hand readily receiveth, and what the hand so receiveth is a mans own. Thus God offering his Son unto us, Faith persuades the heart of Gods good will to man, and of his true intent to have man made partaker of his Son, and thereupon apprehends him, and receives him for his own, and Christ is truly his.