A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

3. The external Elements and Signs, Bread and Wine. In Sacraments there is something seen, and something understood; something perceived by Sense, and something apprehended by Faith. Sacraments are Glasses for our understanding, and Monuments for our Memories, that by mean and visible signs, we might perceive and call to mind sublime and invisible things. Here is Bread, even bread of Life, to fill the hungry Soul, and Wine to satisfy the thirsty, and to cheer the drooping Soul.

3. The external Elements and Signs, Bread and Wine. In Sacraments there is something seen, and something understood; something perceived by Sense, and something apprehended by Faith. Sacraments are Glasses for our understanding, and Monuments for our Memories, that by mean and visible signs, we might perceive and call to mind sublime and invisible things. Here is Bread, even bread of Life, to fill the hungry Soul, and Wine to satisfie the thirsty, and to chear the drooping Soul.

4 The Sacramental Actions, 1. Of Christ, He took the Bread, and blessed it, and brake it: He took the Cup and blessed it; and did distribute both. 2. Of the Receivers, who are to take and eat, to take and drink; Christ is the Giver, Christ is the Gift: And what Christ in love doth give, Believers with joy and thankfulness should receive.

5. The Explication of this Mystery. This is my Body: This Cup is the New-Testament in my Blood: The Bread was not turned into Christs real Body; nor the Wine into his Blood: For, did the Disciples eat Christs real Body, when he was with them at the Table? or did they drink his real Blood, which then was in his Veins, and in his Body, and not in the Cup? Or did they not then see that Christs real Body and Blood was really distinct from the Bread and Wine? And did they not see it was real Bread, and taste it was real Bread,