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The holy Eucharist, or, The mystery of the Lords Supper briefly explained
The holy Eucharist, or, The mystery of the Lords Supper briefly explained by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by A. Maxwell for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668
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.
2. The Vine grows in the Garden, not in the Forest: So Christ this blessed Vine, grows in the Garden of the Church. He is not known among the Heathen, they being Forest ground are not the better for this Vine. To Israel pertains the Glory, for unto them were committed [Greek or Hebrew], the Oracles of God, Rom. 3. 2.
2. The Vine grows in the Garden, not in the Forest: So Christ this blessed Vine, grows in the Garden of the Church. He is not known among the Heathen, they being Forest ground are not the better for this Vine. To Israel pertains the Glory, for unto them were committed 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Oracles of God, Rom. 3. 2.
3. The Vine communicates to the Branches. Believers are called Branches of the Vine, ver. 5. Christ shoots up his sap of Grace into these*. Joh. 1. 16. Of his fullness have we all received. ⟨p. 160⟩Then, let not the branches grow proud; all comes from the root of the Vine. The Saints gifts and graces are derived from Christ. Therefore he calls the Spouses Graces his Graces, Cant. 5. 1. I have gathered my myrrh; not thy myrrh. The Branch hath nothing but what it receives from the Root*.
3. The Vine communicates to the Branches. Believers are called Branches of the Vine, ver. 5. Christ shoots up his sap of Grace into these