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Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness
Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness: wherein several important duties, are urged, and the evil of divers common sins, is evinced; delivered in sundry sermons. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green upon assignment of Samuel Sewall, 1682
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.
1. It is a Sacrament. When spiritual •nystories are represented by outward signs […] a Sacrament: so it is here. In every Sacrament there is an outward and and an inward pant▪ a carnal and a spiritual part, something that is visible and sensible, and something that is not apprehended by the outward offences, which only the soul feeth, and an eye of Faith looketh upon; or the outward sign and the thing signified. If inward […] be signified by outward signs, that's a Sacrament. Thus in the Ordinance of the Lords Supper, there are outward Elements and Sacramental Actions, all which have a spiritual significancy with them.
1. It is a Sacrament. When spiritual •nystories are represented by outward signs 〈…〉 a Sacrament: so it is here. In every Sacrament there is an outward and and an inward pant▪ a carnal and a spiritual part, something that is visible and sensible, and something that is not apprehended by the outward offenses, which only the soul feeth, and an eye of Faith looketh upon; or the outward sign and the thing signified. If inward 〈…〉 be signified by outward signs, thats a Sacrament. Thus in the Ordinance of the Lords Supper, there are outward Elements and Sacramental Actions, all which have a spiritual significancy with them.
1. Bread and Wine are the outward Elements which by the sacred appointment of the Lord Jesus Christ are to be made use of, in that holy institution of his; as is expressly declared in this Context. So in the Gospel we read how Christ blessed Bread, &c. Mat. 26. 26. And the Cup, ver. 27, 28. this […] h. e. the wine […] cup. That it was Wine and nothing else which that sacred cup contained, is evident form verse 29. where it was called the fruit of the Vine. Now as for the Bread, which the Lord Christ, hath