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Christ the universal peace-makerChrist the universall peace-maker
Christ the universal peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.Christ the universall peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodvvin, B.D.
London: printed by J.G. for R. Dawlman, 1651
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sanguine quaerendi reditus animâque litandum.1
- 1Virg. 11. Aen.
He terms the Sacrifice of the blood, the Sacrifice of the Soul: and so Wine was chosen as the nearest resemblance of blood, being also the blood of the Grape.
He termes the Sacrifice of the bloud, the Sacrifice of the Soule: and so Wine was chosen as the neerest resemblance of bloud, being also the bloud of the Grape.
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