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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
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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.
Mark XIV.22, 23, 24. Jesus took Bread, &c.
Mark XIV.22, 23, 24. Iesus took Bread, &c.
(2.) It must be a Joyful Remembrance, John 8.56. Abraham saw my Day and rejoiced. When a Christian sees a Sacrament Day approach he should rejoice. This Ordinance of the Supper is an Earnest of Heaven; 'tis the Glass in which we see him whom our Souls love: It is the Chariot by which we are carried up to Christ. When Jacob saw the Waggons and Chariots which were to carry him to his Son Joseph, his Spirit revived, Gen. 45.27. God hath appointed the Sacrament, on purpose to cheer and revive a sad Heart. When we look on our Sins, •e have cause to mourn; but when we see Christ's Blood shed for our Sins, this may make us rejoice. In the Sacrament our Wants are supplied, our Strength is renewed: Here we meet with Christ, and doth not this call for Joy? A Woman that hath been long debarred from the Society of her Husband, how glad is she of his Presence! At the Sacrament the believing Spouse meets with Christ: He saith to her, All I have is thine. My Love is thine to pity thee, my Mercy is thine to save thee. How can we think in the Sacrament on Christ's Blood shed, and not rejoyce. Sanguis Christi clavis Paradisi. Christ's Blood is the Key which opens Heaven, else we had been all shut out.
(2.) It must be a Ioyful Remembrance,