A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

Nineteenthly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as cementing blood; as that which solders the hearts and affections of Gods people one to another: We are all made to drink of one Blood, which should provoke us to be of one Heart. As Christ shed his blood, and thereby manifested, that be loved all his People; so when we partake of it in the Sacrament• we are engaged to love one another as he hath loved us, 1 Cor. 12.13. Eph. 2 13.14, 15, 16.

Nineteenthly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as cementing blood; as that which soders the hearts and affections of Gods people one to another: We are all made to drink of one Blood, which should provoke us to be of one Heart. As Christ shed his blood, and thereby manifested, that be loved all his People; so when we partake of it in the Sacrament• we are engaged to love one another as he hath loved us, 1 Cor. 12.13. Eph. 2 13.14, 15, 16.

Twentyethly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as such blood, that maketh all you do, to be pleasing unto God. Your best doings would be provocations unto God, had it not been for Christ's dying: If Christ had not dyed, your very praying would have been provoking of God; it is the sufferings and the blood of Christ, that maketh all your religious duties to be acceptable unto God. This is the sweet Incense, which he offers with the Prayers of Saints, Rev. 8.3. Through the blood of the everlasting Covenant, is that wrought in you, and by you, which is pleasing in the sight of God; and indeed in this respect you should eye the virtue and efficacy of the blood of Christ in every Duty; your tears are but puddle water, and your righteousness but rags without this blood of Christ