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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.
A certain man made a great Supper, Luk. 14.16. I may truly say so of the Sacrament. This is a great Supper, in regard of its Author: The great God is Master of the feast. He gave his own Son for the life of the World. 2. In regard of the matter of it, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ; Men set bread and wine on the Table; but Christ setteth his own body and blood there. In this ordinance we eat not onely (Panem Domini, sed panem Dominum) The bread of the Lord, but the bread which is the Lord. The gods (say they) are come down in the ⟨p. 254⟩likeness of man; behold here God the Son cometh down in the likeness of bread and wine; he himself is eat and drunk by faith. Is not this a rare banquet? 3. In regard of the great price of it. Banquets are costly; but O what did this feast cost? Beasts are slain before they can be food for our bodies; but, Lo, here the Lord of life was put to death, that he might be food for our starving souls. Cleopatra dissolved a pearl worth 50000. l. in Vinegar, and drunk it up at a draught; but as costly as her liquor was, it was much worse then puddle water, in comparison of the precious blood of Christ, which the believer drinketh at this great Supper. 4. In regard of its great effects; It sealeth pardon, peace, and salvation, to the Saint; it conveyeth the Image and love of God, nay God himself into the soul; Through the golden pipe of this Ordinance, is conveyed the golden Oil of divine influence. There is Manna indeed in this pot. Well may it be called a great Supper. The Elements are of small value, but the Sacrament is of infinite worth. A conveyance of land fairly written in Parchment with wax fastened to it, is of little price, but when it is signed, sealed, and delivered to the use of a person, it may be worth much, it may convey thousands: A little bread and a spoonful or two of wine, are in themselves of very small value; but when received according to Christs institution, and accompanied with his benediction, they will be of unspeakable value, they will convey thousands and millions to the believer.
A certain man made a great Supper, Luk. 14.16. I may truely say so of the Sacrament. This is a great Supper, in regard of its Author: The great God is Master of the feast. He gave his own Son for the life of the World. 2. In regard of the matter of it, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ; Men set bread and wine on the Table; but Christ setteth his own body and blood there. In this ordinance we eat not onely (Panem Domini, sed panem Dominum) The bread of the Lord, but the bread which is the Lord. The gods (say they) are come down in the