A65285:2842
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
9. And he took the Cup.] The Cup is put by a Metonymy of the Subject for the Adjunct, for the Wine in the Cup; it signifies the Blood of Christ shed for our Sins. The taking of the Cup, denotes the Redundancy of Merit in Christ, and the Fullness of our Redemption by him. He not only took the Bread, but the Cup.
9. And he took the Cup.] The Cup is put by a Metonymy of the Subject for the Adjunct, for the Wine in the Cup; it signifies the Blood of Christ shed for our Sins. The taking of the Cup, denotes the Redundancy of Merit in Christ, and the Fulness of our Redemption by him. He not only took the Bread, but the Cup.
10. And when he had given Thanks.] [Greek or Hebrew]. Christ gave Thanks that God had given these Elements of Bread and Wine to be Signs and Seals of Man's Redemption by Christ. Christ's giving of Thanks, shows his Philanthropy, or Love to Mankind, who did so rejoice and bless God, that Lost Man was now in a way of Recovery, and that he should be raised higher in Christ than ever he was in Innocency.
10. And when he had given Thanks.] 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Christ gave Thanks that God had given these Elements of Bread and Wine to be Signs and Seals of Man's Redemption by Christ. Christ's giving of Thanks, shows his Philanthropy, or Love to Mankind, who did so rejoyce and bless God, that Lost Man was now in a way of Recovery, and that he should be rais'd higher in Christ than ever he was in Innocency.
11. He gave the Cup to them.] Why then dare any with-hold the Cup? This is to pollute and curtail the Ordinance, and alter it from its Primitive Institution. Christ and his Apostles administered the Sacrament in both Kinds, the Bread and the Cup,