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III. SECTION. A Digression showing: 1. That Eating and Drinking together. Especially upon, and after a pacificatory Sacrifice, was a farther confirmation of Mutual peace, both among Jews and Gentiles: And 2. That the Eating the Lords Supper, hath the same intent and accord thereunto: The Harmony of all these notions together.

III. SECTION. A Digression shewing: 1. That Eating and Drinking together. Especially upon, and after a pacificatory Sacrifice, was a farther confirmation of Mutuall peace, both among Jewes and Gentiles: And 2. That the Eating the Lords Supper, hath the same intent and accord thereunto: The Harmony of all these notions together.

Now therefore to draw all these lines into one centre, and to make the harmony and consent of all these notions the more full; and together therewith to render the harmony more complete between the Lords death, and its being intended as a sacrifice to procure this peace, and the Lords Supper as a feast after this sacrifice, holding forth this very thing, as purchased thereby, and so further to confirm all this: look as before I showed (as in relation to the demonstration that Christs death was intended as a sacrifice for such a peace) that that was one end and use of sacrifices both among Jews and Gentiles, to found and create Leagues of amity between man and man so it is proper and requisite for me now to make another like digression, (as in relation to this notion of the Lords Supper) to show how that also by eating and feasting together (especially after or upon such a kind of sacrifice) these Leagues of Love were anciently used to be further confirmed and ratified: that so it may appear that as according to the analogy of such sacrifices, Christs death was a sacrifice directed and intended to that end; so also that according to the analogy of such feasting in and upon sacrifices, this eating and feasting together upon the symbols of that sacrifice by believers, is as genuinely intended a scale of this reconciliation amongst them, and that in a due correspondency ⟨p. 44⟩and answerableness to the genuine intent of that sacrifice it self, as that which had purchased and procured it.