As thus the death it self in all the parts of it; so the SUBJECT for which he dyed, His Body, and that under that very consideration He died for them [as one Body,] is in like manner, as visibly and plainly held forth; Every particular Church bearing by institution the image of the whole Church (as therein it hath also all the privileges of it) fitly showing forth, thereby, not only that Christ died for them singly, and a part considered (which yet is therewith held forth here in that each personally doth partake thereof,) That might have been sufficiently evidenced if every person or family apart, had been warranted to have received, and eaten this sacrificial feast alone (as they did the Passover and the Sacrifices, Lent. 7. 18.) but the institution is for many; which very word Christ mentions in the institution, This is the blood of the new Testament shed for many, which word, I believe the Apostle had an eye unto when he said, We being many are partakers, &c. Christ indeed principally aimed therein, to show, that his intent in dying, was for a multitude of mankind, the whole body of his Elect: yet because he inserts the mention hereof; at the delivery of those Elements, and that the ordinance it self was suited to hold forth this intent, The Apostle takes the hint of it; and adds this gloss and construction upon it as glanced at in it: that according to the institution and import of this Ordinance, the partakers hereof are to be a many (not one or two alone:) and these united into one Body, to the end that thereby may be held forth this great intendment in His ⟨p. 58⟩death, That he died for the many of His Church, as one collective body. This however we are sure of, that this way of partaking this Supper as in one Body, was to the Apostle a matter of that moment, That we find him bitterly inveighing in the next Chapter, that the same individual Church of Corinth, when they came together in one for that and other Ordinances, should of all Ordinances else, not receive this Ordinance together in such a community, but perverting that order, should even in that place appointed for the meetings of the whole Church, divide themselves into private several companies, and so make this as a private Supper, which in the nature and intendment of the institution of it, was to be a Communion of the whole Church or body together.
As thus the death it selfe in all the parts of it; so the SUBJECT for which hee dyed, His Body, and that under that very consideration He died for them [as one Body,] is in like manner, as visibly and plainly held forth; Every particular Church bearing by institution the image of the whole Church (as therein it hath also all the priviledges of it) fitly shewing forth, thereby, not onely that Christ died for them singly, and a part considered (which yet is therewith held forth here in that each personally doth partake thereof,) That might have been sufficiently evidenced if every person or family apart, had been warranted to have received, and eaten this sacrificiall feast alone (as they did the Passeover and the Sacrifices, Lent. 7. 18.) but the institution is for many; which very word Christ mentions in the institution, This is the bloud of the new Testament shed for many, which word, I believe the Apostle had aney unto when he sayd, We being many are partakers, &c. Christ indeed principally aimed therein, to shew, that his intent in dying, was for a multitud of mankinde, the whole body of his Elect: yet because he inserts the mention hereof; at the delivery of those Elements, and that the ordinance it selfe was suited to hold forth this intent, The Apostle takes the hint of it; and adds this glosse and construction upon it as glaunced at in it: that according to the institution and import of this Ordinance, the partakers hereof are to be a many (not one or two alone:) and these united into one Body, to the end that thereby may be held forth this great intendment in His ⟨p. 58⟩death, That he died for the many of His Church, as one collective body. This however wee are sure of, that this way of partaking this Supper as in one Body, was to the Apostle a matter of that moment, That we find him bitterly inveighing in the next Chapter, that the same individuall Church of Corinth, when they came together in one for that and other Ordinances, should of all Ordinances else, not receive this Ordinance together in such a community, but perverting that order, should even in that place appointed for the meetings of the whole Church, divide themselves into private severall companies, and so make this as a private Supper, which in the nature and intendment of the institution of it, was to be a Communion of the whole Church or body together.
