Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

Ans. Reas. 1. Because this Ordinance being Christs Institution; the observation of it, tends to the honour of his Name. It is his Institution, and is therefore called the Lords Supper. A Supper from the time when it was Instituted, viz. in the right, and the Lords Supper, from the Author and Institutor […] it, which was the Lord Christ. As the first day of the week is called the Lords Day, Rev. 1. 10. because it is the Day which the Lord Christ hath sanctified, and commanded that it should be observed in commemoration of his Resurrection, so is this Ordinance the Lords Supper, because the Lord hath appointed the observation of it, as a solemn memorial of his Death. Nor indeed could any one besides the Lord himself be the Author of such an Ordinance. Men have no power to appoint Sacraments. It belongs to him to appoint the outward sign who can give the inward grace that is signified thereby and that the Lord alone can do, Now being a Divine Institution, the observation of it doth, (as all Divine Institutions do) tend to the honour of the Name of him who hath said Do this. Hereby the Lords Name and memory is upheld amongst his People in the World; and therefore the next words are, in ⟨p. 140⟩remembrance of me. Especially the remembrance of Christs Death; and so of the saving benefits procured thereby, is continued, by means of this sacred Ordinance, ver. 26. As oft as ye eat this Bread, and drink this Cup. […] do show the Lords death till he come. Therefore his people ought religiously to observe it.

Ans. Reas. 1. Because this Ordinance being Christs Institution; the observation of it, tends to the honour of his Name. It is his Institution, and is therefore called the Lords Supper. A Supper from the time when it was Instituted, viz. in the right, and the Lords Supper, from the Author and Institutor 〈…〉 it, which was the Lord Christ. As the first day of the week is called the Lords Day, Rev. 1. 10. because it is the Day which the Lord Christ hath sanctified, and commanded that it should be observed in commemoration of his Resurrection, so is this Ordinance the Lords Supper, because the Lord hath appointed the observation of it, as a solemn memorial of his Death. Nor indeed could any one besides the Lord himself be the Author of such an Ordinance. Men have no power to appoint Sacraments. It belongs to him to appoint the outward sign who can give the inward grace that is signified thereby and that the Lord alone can do, Now being a Divine Institution, the observation of it doth, (as all Divine Institutions do) tend to the honour of the Name of him who hath said Do this. Hereby the Lords Name and memory is upheld amongst his People in the World; and therefore the next words are, in