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Conclusion, III.

It is in REMEMBRANCE of our Lord Jesus Christ, that we are to Do this. [And this also adds unto the confutation of that Popish Figment which holds the Real presence here.] We are therefore told, in 1 Cor. 11. 26. Hereby ye show the Lords Death. The Apostle uses a word, [Greek or Hebrew], which is frequently used for the Preaching and Spreading of the Gospel; and it alludes to the Haggada at the Passover of the Jews. The Jews at the Passover had a solemn Declaration, or Annunciation of their deliverance from their ancient Slavery. Thus, at the Lords Supper we have a Co•••e•ration of the Deliverance wrought for our Souls, by the Bl••d of the Lord Jesus, who was, the Paschal […] sacrificed ⟨p. 60⟩for us. Tis an Ordinance made up of lively shadows, wherein the Mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ is exhibited unto us. Our Lord is gone from us; and as we do by some Token keep up the Remembrance of an Absent Friend; so do we in this Ordinance Retain and Revive the Remembrance of an Absent Lord. We do therein, as it were behold the Death of our Lord Jesus acted over again to the life; and we Remember what He was, we Remember what He did, we Remember what He said, when He was Incarnate here. We read in Joh. 19 5. When Pilate had been Torturing our Lord, he brought him forth, saying Behold the Man! Even so, in the Lords Supper our Lord is, as it were, in E•••gie produced unto us; and we hear that voice, Behold the Man! Behold a precious and a dying Saviour! O see what He has done, see what […] hath born for you! Our Lord Jesus in the Ordinance built a Monument for Himself before He died; and the Mausaem of old, which was cunten one of the seven wonders of the World, was inferior to this, as to the […] and Glory of it. We were not Eye-witnesses of […]; But in this Ordinance we have Him […] before […] as that: and […] for Ministers,