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A companion for communicants. Discourses upon the nature, the design, and the subject of…
A companion for communicants. Discourses upon the nature, the design, and the subject of the Lords Supper; with devout methods of preparing for, and approaching to that blessed ordinance. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church at Boston. ; [Seven lines from Augustine]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris, 1690
Invitations to the SUPPER of the LORD, With a DISCOURSE on the Natu… › Proposition 1
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That there is a marvellous Opposition to, and yet a no less marvellous Affinity with, several Ordinances of the Old Testament, in it. For, you may observe, That under the Law, No man might Eat that which was offered for the Remission of his own Sins. But, behold, because the Body of the Lord Jesus was offered for our sins, for That very cause 'tis, that We are to feed on Him▪ You may observe, That under the Law, The Sacrificers were to Eat of the Victims which they had offered for the sins of other men. But behold, our Lord Jesus has Transferred that Right unto the Sinners themselves; we are to seed on what He has offered! You may further observe, That the Law which forbade Sinners to Feed on the Sacrifices that were for their ⟨p. 28⟩Expiation, showed, That the True Sacrifice was not yet exhibited, nor our Expiation Accomplished; but that the Sacerdotal Act of Manducation, which was requisite unto an Expiatory Sacrifice, now belongs to all true Believers, as an effect of their Expiation.
That there is a marvellous Opposition to, and yet a no less marvellous Affinity with, several Ordinances of the Old Testament, in it. For, you may observe, That under the Law, No man might Eat that which was offered for the Remission of his own Sins. But, behold, because the Body of the Lord Jesus was offered for our sins, for That very cause 'tis, that We are to feed on Him▪ You may observe, That under the Law, The Sacrificers were to Eat of the Victimes which they had offered for the sins of other men. But behold, our Lord Jesus has Transferred that Right unto the Sinners themselves; we are to seed on what He has offered! You may further observe, That the Law which fo•bad Sinners to Feed on the Sacrifices that were for their ⟨p. 28⟩Expiation, shew'd, That the True Sacrifice was not yet exhibited, nor our Expiation Accomplished; but that the Sacerdotal Act of Manducation, which was requisite unto an Expiatory Sacrifice, now belongs to all true Believers, as an effect of their Expiation.