Christ the universal peace-makerChrist the universall peace-maker

That Supper being ordained to show forth his death; look as he dyed, so it represents it. As therefore Christ was sacrificed representing the General assembly of Saints, & so in one body reconciled them to God: so, this Supper was ordained, (in the regular administration of it,) to hold forth the image of this, as near as possible such an ordinance could be supposed to have done it; For answerably the seat, the [Greek or Hebrew] of it, is a Communion of many Saints met together in one Body. And not otherwise. Thus 1 Cor. 10. 17. For we being many are òne bread and ONE BODY. He had said v. 16. That the Lords Supper it was the Communion of the body of Christ, ⟨p. 56⟩&c. that is, a Communion of Christs Body, as to each, so as of a company united together among themselves; and accordingly the Apostle subjoins this as the reason; For we (whom you see, do ordinarily partake of it,) are many (not one or two apart) and those many, are one bread and one body: One bread as the sign; One Body as the thing signified. And thus we are, then, considered to be, when Christ as dying is communicated by us. For to show forth His Death is the end of this Sacrament. The seat therefore or subject of partaking in this Communion, of Christs Body and Blood; and which is ordained for the public participation of it, is not either single Christians, but a many; nor those meeting as a fluid company like clouds uncertainly, or as men at an ordinary for running Sacraments (as some would have them) but fixed setledly, as incorporated Bodies. Which institution, having for its subject such a society, as then, when Christs Death is to be shown forth, doth suitably and correspondently set forth, how that the whole Church the Image of which whole Universal Church, ¹(these particular Churches do bear, as a late Commentator hath observed upon that place) was represented in and by Christ dying for us, under this consideration of being One Body, then in Him.

That Supper being ordeined to shew forth his death; looke as he dyed, so it represents it. As therefore Christ was sacrificed representing the Generall assembly of Saints, & so in one body reconciled them to God: so, this Supper was ordeined, (in the regular administration of it,) to hold forth the image of this, as neer as possible such an ordinance could be supposed to have done it; For answerably the seate, the of it, is a Communion of many Saints met together in one Body. And not otherwise. Thus