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Invitations to the SUPPER of the LORD, With a DISCOURSE on the Nature, Design and Subject of that Blessed Ordinance.

I COR. XI. 24. This do in Remembrance of Me.

The Blessed God, who has made Sacraments to be such very necessary and agreeable Engines for a maintaining of a Communion between the Visible and Invisible World, has in both Testaments appointed several such means of our Fellowship with Himself. ⟨p. 2⟩A Sacrament is a Sign and Seal, by which is declared, and confirmed, and conveyed some Spiritual Thing unto us. Tho' the Word SACRAMENT be not in the Scripture; it being borrowed from the Name of the Oath, which passed between Commanders and Soldiers of old: yet the Thing we are abundantly advised of; and there are two Sacraments which under the Evangelical Dispensation of the new Covenant, our God would have us approach unto him in. Those are a Sacred Baptism, and a Sacred Supper; the former of which is to signify our Inoculation into the Lord Jesus Christ, and our Obligation to Serve and Fight under Him; but the latter of them is to signify our Participation in all the saving Benefits of our Lord Jesus, and our Augmentation in our Conformity and Obedience to Him. It is Remarkable (and a Worthy Person of another Nation in a Treatise Entitled La manducation du Corps de Christ, i find long since putting such a Remark upon it) that as of old under the Law those two Acts of Washing and Feeding were those which did represent the Application of the Redemption to come, and by those two Acts were the People made partakers of the then Holy things: thus the two Sacraments of the New-Testament have those two Acts to manage them.

THe Blessed God, who has made Sacraments to be such very necessary and agreeable Engines for a maintaining of a Communion between the Visible and Invisible World, has in both Testaments appointed several such means of our Fellowship with Himself.