This cup is not Wine, but the cup of the New Testament in his Blood, and by this reflex act, the Believer applies, and confirms himself, having received the Sacrament, whereby his union with Christ is signified and sealed up, he applies and says within himself, now Christ is mine, and I am his: and he confirms himself in Christs love to himself and in his interest in him: Now sayeth he, I have gotten no delusion, but the sign and Seal of his blessed Body broken, and of his Blood shed for ⟨p. 37⟩me: If unbelief say, have ye gotten Christ indeed? Yes says the Believers faith, having received this Pledge of his love, I have gotten himself and I should Believe it; and this is to act on Christ not only directly, which is a thing common to the Sacrament with the word, but to act on Christ reflexly: and to persuade our selves of our union and Communion with him, which is the end of this Ordinance: else we take not up Christ as giving a seal; Therefore the word is, Take, eat, This is my Body broken for you: there is more then a bare sign here: and faith acts not only for receiving, but for confirming it self, that by receiving it hath an union and Communion with him, who is holden out in the Sacrament, For if it be a seal and exhibit Christ as a seal, then faith should receive and act on it as such for attaining the end that a seal should have, supposing the condition to proceed. Fifthly, it consists in an act of spiritual affecting, when there is a Holy smacking (to speak so) and kissing of Christ, The soul digesting him for the life of the inner man, and thereon delighting, rejoicing, and exulting in him: and so the faith, confidence and hope of the Believer are strengthened: which makes him that he is not ashamed; and upon the back of this ordinarily the Love of God is shed abroad in the heart: and though there should be little sensible feeling, yet the believer finds himself obliged to cheer himself in Christ, and in the Covenant and in the benefits that he hath through his purchase: and there is readily some warming of love to Christ, and he is confirmed in the faith of the love of Christ to him: and it is impossible, where these two are, but some Holy tickling of affections, which flow from the Word and from this Ordinance thus rightly gone about (as has been said) will follow: and if this be not, That is, if Christ be not ⟨p. 38⟩thus discerned in the Sacrament, 1.
This cup is not Wine, but the cup of the New Testament in his Blood, and by this reflex act, the Believer applies, and confirmes himself, having received the Sacrament, whereby his union with Christ is signified and sealed up, he applies and sayes within himself, now Christ is mine, and I am his: and he confirmes himself in Christs love to himself and in his interest in him: Now sayeth he, I have gotten no delusion, but the signe and Seal of his blessed Body broken, and of his Blood shed for ⟨p. 37⟩me: If unbelief say, have ye gotten Christ indeed? Yes sayes the Believers faith, having received this Pledge of his love, I have gotten himself and I should Believe it; and this is to act on Christ not only directly, which is a thing common to the Sacrament with the word, but to act on Christ reflexly: and to perswade our selves of our union and Communion with him, which is the end of this Ordinance: else we take not up Christ as giving a seal; Therefore the word is, Take, eat, This is my Body broken for you: there is more then a bare signe here: and faith acts not only for receiving, but for confirming it self, that by receiving it hath an union and Communion with him, who is holden out in the Sacrament, For if it be a seal and exhibit Christ as a seal, then faith should receive and act on it as such for attaining the end that a seal should have, supposing the condition to preceed. Fifthly, it consists in an act of spiritual affecting, when there is a Holy smacking (to speak so) and kissing of Christ, The soul digesting him for the life of the inner man, and thereon delighting, rejoycing, and exulting in him: and so the faith, confidence and hope of the Believer are strengthened: which makes him that he is not ashamed; and upon the back of this ordinarily the Love of God is shed abroad in the heart: and though there should be little sensible feeling, yet the believer finds himself oblidged to cheer himself in Christ, and in the Covenant and in the benefits that he hath thorow his purchase: and there is readily some warming of love to Christ, and he is confirmed in the faith of the love of Christ to him: and it is impossible, where these two are, but some Holy tickling of affections, which flow from the Word and from this Ordinance thus rightly gone about (as has been said) will follow: and if this be not, That is, if Christ be not ⟨p. 38⟩thus discerned in the Sacrament, 1.
