A94156:578
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
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.
When the blessed Saviour was taking a doleful farewell of an ungrateful world, as a lively resemblance of his sufferings for his, and as an undeniable evidence of his love to his, he instituted this Supper: 1. As a lively resemblance of his passion for his people. A crucified Christ is the sum of the Law, and the substance of the Gospel; the knowledge of him is no less worth then Eternal life. Now as he was crucified by the Jews and Soldiers actually, and by unbelieving Gentiles who live amongst us interpretatively; so he is crucified in the Gospel declaratively, and in the Sacrament representatively. This Cup, saith Christ, is the new Testament in my blood, 1 Corinth. 11.25. The Old Testament was sprinkled with the blood of Beasts, but the New Testament with the blood of Christ, Hebr. 9.15, 19. This precious blood, which was the costly price of mans Redemption, which is the only path to Eternal Salvation; which was promised to Adam, believed by the Patriarchs, shadowed in the Sacrifices, foretold by the Prophets, and witnessed in the Scriptures, is drunk, received, signified and sealed in the Supper.
When the blessed Saviour was taking a doleful farwel of an ungrateful world, as a lively resemblance of his sufferings for his, and as an undeniable evidence of his love to his, he instituted this Supper: 1. As a lively resemblance of his passion for his people. A crucified Christ is the sum of the Law, and the substance of the Gospel; the knowledge of him is no less worth then Eternal life. Now as he was crucified by the Jews and Souldiers actually, and by unbelieving Gentiles who live amongst us interpretatively; so he is crucified in the Gospel declaratively, and in the Sacrament representatively. This Cup, saith Christ, is the new Testament in my blood, 1 Corinth. 11.25. The Old Testament was sprinkled with the blood of Beasts, but the New Testament with the blood of Christ, Hebr. 9.15, 19. This precious blood, which was the costly price of mans Redemption, which is the onely path to Eternal Salvation; which was promised to Adam, believed by the Patriarchs, shadowed in the Sacrifices, foretold by the Prophets, and witnessed in the Scriptures, is drunk, received, signified and sealed in the Supper.