Christ the universal peace-makerChrist the universall peace-maker

Now for a coronis to this first Branch, and withal to add a further confirmation yet, that Christs death was intended as a sacrifice to these ends, for amity and unity among Gods people, we may clearly view and behold this truth in the Mirror of the Lords Supper. One most genuine and primary import whereof, and end of the institution of it, being this very thing in hand: (I shall have recourse thereto again in the next Branch also upon the same account that now.)

Now for a coronis to this first Branch, and withall to adde a further confirmation yet, that Christs death was intended as a sacrifice to these ends, for amity and unity among Gods people, we may clearly view and behold this truth in the Mirrour of the Lords Supper. One most genuine and primary import whereof, and end of the institution of it, being this very thing in hand: (I shall have recourse thereto againe in the next Branch also upon the same account that now.)

The Lords Supper in its full and proper scope, is, as you know, a solemn commemoration of Christs death offered up upon the Cross, or if you will, in the Apostles own words, it is a showing forth his death till he comes: And do this (says Christ) in remembrance of me; namely, in dying for you: and so withal to commemorate with application to themselves, the principal ends and intendments of that his death, which is therein acted over afore their eyes. Hence ⟨p. 41⟩therefore I take this as an undoubted maxim, which no knowing Christian will deny (and its the foundation of what I am now a building:) That look what principal ends, purposes or intendments this Supper or sacrificial feast holds forth in its institution unto us: those must needs be looked at, by all Christians, in the like proportion, to have been the main ends and purposes of his death to be remembered. So that we may argue mutually from what were the ends of Christs death, unto what must needs be the designed intendments of this Sacrament. And we may as certainly conclude, and infer to our selves, what were the intendments of his death, by what are the genuine ends of that Sacrament. These answer each to other, as the image in the glass doth to the principal lineaments in the face; the impress on the wax, to that in the scale; the action, the sign and remembrances, to the thing signified and to be remembered.