Christ the universal peace-makerChrist the universall peace-maker

Now then to bring all this home to the point in hand, Christ our Passover, (and so our Sacrifice for us) having been slain and offered up for our mutual peace, hath instituted and ordained us Believers to keep this feast, (It is the Apostles own allusion, agreeing with and founded on the ⟨p. 46⟩notion we have been prosecuting:) and that to this end, That by partaking of it as a Sacrifice, and by showing forth His death, we might hold forth, all the avowed ends of that Sacrifice with Application to our selves. The eminent ends of the one as a Sacrifice, corresponding and answering to the eminent ends of the other as a Feast. A Feast it is, of Gods providing, and he the great entertainer of us at it, in token of peace between Him and us: for HE it was, who prepared the Sacrifice it self, and unto whom as a whole burnt offering Christ was offered up; But God is not as one that sits down and eats with us, though He smelt a sweet savour in it, we are the guests, and He the Master, of this Feast: And yet He thereby proclaims, and professeth His being reconciled, in that He causeth us to sit down at His Table. And this is the prime, and most eminent significancy of it. And to hold forth this intent thereof, as between God us, others have prosecuted this notion. But there is another, (more conspicuously suited to the notion which hath been driven, and) which is no less in the intention of the institution it self: and indeed of the two more obvious to outward sense,) and that is, that the Persons themselves, for whom it is prepared, that do visibly sit down, and do eat and drink (in proper speech,) the Bread and Cup together, that they are agreed, and at peace each with other. God He is but as an invisible entertainer: but our eating and drinking together, is visible to all the world; we outwardly show forth his death, and do withal as visibly show forth this to have been the intent of it. Yea and if we could raise up those Nations of old, both Jews and Gentiles, and call together the most part of the world at this day: and should but declare, that this is a Feast, especially a sacrificial Feast, a Feast after a Sacrifice, offered once up for our amity & peace by so great A Mediator:

Now then to bring all this home to the point in hand, Christ our Passeover, (and so our Sacrifice for us) having been slayn and offred up for our mutuall peace, hath instituted and ordained us Believers to keepe this feast, (It is the Apostles own allusion, agreeing with and founded on the ⟨p. 46⟩