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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
Treatise › Chapter 19: How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness at the Table.
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1. Faith must look out for Christ: Consider that Jesus Christ is the very soul of the Sacrament; without him it is but the carcass of an Ordinance. Christ and the Scripture bring comfort; Christ and prayer cause spiritual profit; Accedat Christus ad elementum, & fiet Sacramentum. Christ and the elements make a Sacrament. Christ and the Sacrament make a rare feast. Therefore be sure thou look out for Christ; Rest not in the bread and wine, but look farther. When thou sittest at the Table, let ⟨p. 304⟩the speech of thine heart be, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? Turn to God and say as they to Philip, Sir, I would fain see Jesus; Lord I would fain see Jesus Christ. Let neither word nor prayer nor elements, nor all things content thee without Christ. As Isaac told his Father; Father, behold here is the wood and the fire, but where is the Lamb for a burnt offering? So do thou look up to thy Heavenly Father; Father, behold here is the Preacher, and here is the Scripture, here is the bread and here is the wine, but where is the body and blood of my Saviour? Lord where is the Lamb for a Sacrifice? Father, Father, Where is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the World? If the Angels that are present at the Sacrament, should speak to thee, give them occasion for the same language, which they gave the Woman at the Sepulchre, We know whom thou seekest, thou seekest Jesus which was Crucified: come see the place where the Lord lay. Come see the promise, see the elements in which the Lord lieth, Mat. 28.5, 6.
1. Faith must look out for Christ: Consider that Jesus Christ is the very soul of the Sacrament; without him it is but the carcass of an Ordinance. Christ and the Scripture bring comfort; Christ and prayer cause spiritual profit; Accedat Christus ad elementum, & fiet Sacramentum. Christ and the elements make a Sacrament. Christ and the Sacrament make a rare feast. Therefore be sure thou look out for Christ; Rest not in the bread and wine, but look farther. When thou sittest at the Table, let ⟨p. 304⟩the speech of thine heart be, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? Turn to God and say as they to Philip, Sir, I would fain see Jesus; Lord I would fain see Jesus Christ. Let neither word nor prayer nor elements, nor all things content thee without Christ. As Isaac told his Father; Father, behold here is the wood and the fire, but where is the Lamb for a burnt offering? So do thou look up to thy Heavenly Father; Father, behold here is the Preacher, and here is the Scripture, here is the bread and here is the wine, but where is the body and blood of my Saviour? Lord where is the Lamb for a Sacrifice? Father, Father, Where is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the World? If the Angels that are present at the Sacrament, should speak to thee, give them occasion for the same language, which they gave the Woman at the Sepulchre, We know whom thou seekest, thou seekest Jesus which was Crucified: come see the place where the Lord lay. Come see the promise, see the elements in which the Lord lyeth,