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Now to rectify these Abuses, the Apostle reduces them to the Original Institution of that blessed Sacrament. This is the scope of the Paragraph, which affords our Text unto us; the Apostle recites what our Lord said, and what He Did, when He appointed this Holy Ordinance. Accordingly, in the words of our Saviour, which the Apostle here quotes, agreeably to the Account given by Three Evangelists, we have two Things.

Now to rectifie these Abuses, the Apostle reduces them to the Original Institution of that blessed Sacrament. This is the scope of the Paragraph, which affords our Text unto us; the Apostle recites what our Lord said, and what He Did, when He appointed this Holy Ordinance. Accordingly, in the words of our Saviour, which the Apostle here quotes, agreeably to the Account given by Three Evangelists, we have two Things.

First, A Christian Duty, This Do, That is, My Disciples, Do you Assemble to Celebrate such a Sacrament as I ••re set before you.

Secondly, A Christian Design. In Remembrance […]. That is, I am withdrawing my ⟨p. 8⟩Bodily says, The Ro•k was Christ. Indeed the wicked Popish Clergy have imposed upon the World, a monstrous Figment of a Transubstantiation here; That whatever our Senses tell us, to the contrary, 'tis not Bread but Christ, which we have after a wretched Priest has consecrated it, tho' the Apostle Paul expressly calls it Bread no less than three times after the consecration: That the substance of the Bread being now Abolished, the Accidents thereof yet remain, and it is the proper and real Substance of our Lords Body, which is imperceptibly come in the room thereof; and that His Body is now there,after the manner of a Spirit; which indeed s, To speak sense after the manner of Nonsense. Well may it be mentioned among the Notes of Antichrist; That he denies the coming of our Lord Jesus in the Flesh; for whatever Trash there may be in a Book famous throughout the English World, there is this Truth well asserted there, It is against the Truth of Christs Natural Body, to be at one Time in more places than one. The Inventors of this prodigious Heresy, which lays a foundation for the most exquisite Atheism, and opens a Door for all manner of Delusions and Impieties, these men, I suppose were those, of whom our Lord foretold in Math. 24. 26. They shall say, Christ is in the secret Chamber, or, as it may be rendered, Christ is in the Cup-ard. It is easy to tell How this