suppose our Lord and the more Pious Jews did not Approve of that Order of the Sena e but followed the true Appearance of the Moon confirmed by sufficient and assured Witnesses The Passover being to be kept on the Fifteenth Day from the Appearance of the New-Moon But you will say still How could that Lamb be brought to the Temple and killed there if it were not on the same Day the Jewish Passover was generally Observed Unto which it is Answered That either the Master of the Family might be permitted on that day to kill the Lamb Not all the Lambs to be eaten by the Paschal Societies were to be killed by the Priests at the Temple and their blood poured out upon or at the Foot of the Altar but some of 'em in stead of All. Or that as to this and other Feasts whose Time depended upon this Determination that it was usual in Doubtful Cases to permit the Feast to be Solemnized for two days together Many Instances can be brought of this out of the Writings and Practices of the Jews and it is probable it was so now It is certain it was the Night before he â—â—â—â—â—red that he did thus eat the Passover and the Day wherein Israel went out of Egypt And it is a Tradition among the Jews says Grotius That then Israel should be delivered and redeemed in the Days of the Messiah even on the same day wherein they were delivered out of the House of Bondage in Egypt Thus admirably did the Wisdom of God concur to make the Antitype agree with the Type as will appear more distinctly under the next Head V. The Accomplishment of this Jewish Passover in the Kingdom of God For I say unto you I will eat no more thereof until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God Which denotes it should be accomplished very shortly in that Kingdom But Vntil will not argue as if he should have afterwards eaten of it again That will not follow any more than that Michal Saul's Daughter had Children after her death because it is said She had no Child till the day of her death 1. What is meant by the Kingdom of God 2. What by the Fulfilling of the Passover therein And how or wherein it was then Accomplished and Fulfilled 1. Wâ— are we to understand by the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven Sometimes the expression is used for the Kingdom of Glory Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God Sometimes for his Providential Government His Kingdom ruleth over all Sometimes for the Execution of Judgment on the Nation of the Jews Mark 9.1 Some standing here shall not taste of Death till they see the Kingdom of God come But most usually it is taken for the Kingdom of Grace in General The Messiah's Kingdom with what belongs thereto The outward Means of Salvation are sometimes so called Math. 21.43 If I cast out Devils by the Spirit of God then is the Kingdom of God come unto you The Internal Renovation of the Soul is also so expressed The Kingdom of God is within you and cometh not with observation Luk. 17.20 21. The Essentials of Christianity are also expressed by this Phrase Rom. 14.17 The Kingdom of God is not Meat and Drink but Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost But the Church-State or the Evangelical Dispensation by the Messiah is most commonly understood As when the Kingdom of God is said to be at hand by the Preaching of Christ and his Apostles And no greater Prophet than John the Baptist yet the least in the Kingdom of Heaven or the meanest Minister of the New Testament who Preacheth the Accomplishment of those things which the Baptist saw but the beginning of is greater than John the Baptist for he died before the Sacrifice of Christ So in this Text our Lord sayes He will eat no more of the Passover and drink no more of the Fruit of the Vine till it be accomplished in the Kingdom of God that is till what was represented in the Figure and Type of the Jewish Passover was really fulfilled by the Messiah's Offering himself a Sacrifice upon the Cross Which Sacrifice and Death of Christ was supposed and anticipated in the Lord's Supper as the first Institution of this New Kingdom or Gospel-Dispensation My body broken for you And this brings me to consider 2. The Fulfilling of this Passover in the Kingdom of God Or the Accomplishment of the Legal Passover when Christ the Lamb of God who taketh away the Sins of the World was Sacrificed for us And here we may consider in the General 1. That something more than the History was intended 2. That these things did refer to the Messiah 3. That the Faithful under the Old Testament did so regard them 1. It is certain that somewhat more than the History was designed All the Sacrifices and Ceremonies of the Mosaick Institution were but Shadows of good things to come But the Substance is Christ Colos 2.17 He is so even of the Jewish Passover For the Jews can never assign any pertinent and solid Reason of the Passover-Rites if there were no Reference to the Messiah What need of the Choice and Separation of a Lamb in that manner What Vertue could there be in the killing of one and the Sprinkling their Door-posts with his Blood What Influence could That have on their Deliverance out of Egypt Could not God distinguish the Houses of the Israelites from those of the Egyptians without this No Reason can well be assign'd of such Rites and Orders but by the Doctrine of the New Testament These things are thereby discover'd to be Excellent Emblems of the great Mystery of our Lord's Death 2. The whole Design therefore of this Paslover-Feast had an Aspect upon the Messiah and does Admirably Represent the Death and Sufferings of Christ the Lamb of God Sacrificed for us By whose Blood we have a Spiritual Deliverance from Sin and Satan as by the Blood of the Paschal Lamb they had a Deliverance from the destroying Angel and afterwards a Deliverance from the Egyptian Bondage Even the History of the Institution of this Passover shows a manifest Reference to Jesus Christ For we read Exod. 12.46 concerning the Paschal Lamb Neither shall ye break a Bone thereof And this is said to be fulfilled in Christ the Antitype as if pronounced immediately of him John 19. When the Souldiers found him dead they brake not his Bones as of the other two And it follows These things were done that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says A Bone of him shall not be broken The Faithful under the Old Testament did so regard these Things And therefore Moses who esteemed the Reproach of Christ as greater Riches than the Treasures of Egypt and therefore did know him is said to have kept the Passover in Faith Heb. 11.28 In which Chapter the Apostle speaks all along of Faith in the Mediator and not of Faith in God
ceasing of the Mosaick and the beginning of the Evangelical one In the like sense the same Word is used in other Places as Zach. 14 6 7. And that which answers to the Word New is that it is opposed to the old Dispensation that it serves to Divine Purposes by a new Institution and so is made New And it declares that the N w Gospel Dispensation to which it is appropriate is now beginning or to commence I 'll not drink of it till I drink it New with you in my Father's Kingdom or in the Kingdom of God i. e. In the Lord's Supper which is my Gospel Institution and the Beginning of the Peculiar Kingdom of God as dispens'd after my Actual Death and Sufferings No question but the Sense is very safe to consider it with Reference to the Heavenly Glory as it is usually understood when all the Blessings of this Passover shall be fully Accomplished in the Heavenly Canaan Neither is it strange or unusual for the same Ancient Type or Figure to respect to several Objects and so have several Degrees of Accomplishment * Les OEVRES Posthumes de Mr. Claude Tom. 2. l. 4. cap. 9. traité de J. Christ This of the Paschal Lamb might not only have Relation to the Angel's passing by the Houses of the Isrelites in Egypt and their passage out of Bondage into Liberty by the Deliverance that follow'd but unto the Absolution and Deliverance of Believers by the Blood of Chrsst and unto the Deliverance of Christ himself out of the Grace and from a state of Humiliation to that of Glory and to the passage of the Church Militant upon Earth to a state of Triumph in Heaven The Blessedness of Heaven is frequently set off by this Metaphor of Eating and Drinking And at the Lord's Table which was Instituted at the close of the Passover Feast the Thoughts of Heaven are proper We meet at this Table as those who hope to sit down with all the Children of the Kingdom at the last great Supper of the Lamb. This Ordinance is a lively Resemblance of the Heavenly Feast and should assist our Meditations on it Our Lord doth here speak to us such kind of Language Ere long we shall Feast together in Heaven What is now done in Emblem shall be then done in Reality You have here the Earnest Pledge and Assurance of it This Table is a Preparatory Entertainment for the Eternal Supper * Bishop Parick Mensa mystica chap. 18. It is some foretaste to stay our Longings and yet excite our Desires after the Heavenly Feast above Here we break our Fast as I may say but are made thereby very Hungry till that Great Supper come Here we have but a Praelibation a little short Antepast of some Rare things to come yet seeing it is an Earnest of those Things it creates in an holy Soul a wonderful Contentment both from its own Sweetness and the Hopes wherewith it feeds us It nourishes in us most Delicious Longings it makes the Soul even swell with Comfortable Expectations And we Receive it not only as a Remembrance of what was done but as a Pledge of what shall be We taste not only what he is to our Souls at present but what he shall be for ever If it be a Priviledge to be Admitted to sit at his Table and to have his Covenant sealed to me by the outward Ordinance and his special Love by his Spirit to my Heart All the Life and Comfort of these is That they Declare and Assure me of more and better Comforts hereafter Their Use is darkly to signifie and seal higher Mercies When I shall Drink with Christ of the Fruit of the Vine renewed How pleasant a Feast will that be O◠the Difference * Mr. Baxter as One hath well exprest it O the Difference between the last Supper of Christ on Earth and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb at the Great Day Here he is in an Vpper-Room accompanied with Twelve poor selected men feeding on no curious Dainties but a Paschal Lamb with sour Herbs and a Judas at his Table ready to betray him But then his Room will be the Glorious Heavens his Attendants all the Host of Angels and Saints no Judas nor unfurnished Guest comes there but the humble Believers must sit down by him and the Feast will be their mutual Loving and Rejoycing You know nevertheless that when the Israelites were got out of Egypt and delivered by the Blood of the Lamb and had a Promise of Canaan they had yet a Wilderness to pass through many Enemies to Encounter and Difficulties to overcome before they entred into Canaan though God protected and maintained and supplyed them in the Wilderness all that while So is it with us Christians though we recover our Spiritual Liberty by Faith in the Blood of Jesus and are made a peculiar People unto God a Nation of Kings and Priests unto the most High and are marching towards the Heavenly Canaan and have the Promise of it We have yet a Wilderness to pass through We have Adversaries on all sides to resist We need a Pillar of Cloud and of Fire to direct us and Manna from Heaven to supply us And this we shall have from time to time till we come to Canaan and then our Lord will eat and drink with us after a better manner we shall have New Wine in his Kingdom He is gone to prepare a Feast for us to make ready the great Supper of the Lamb for all the Children of the Kingdom After he was Sacrificed as the Lamb of God he tarried Fourty Days upon the Earth from his Resurrection till he Ascended into Heaven As the Jews after their Passover in Egypt wandred 40 years in the Wilderness before they entred into Canaan But all Believers after a few Years Difficulty and Tryals in this World with the Presence of God to Conduct and Guide them shall at last sit down for ever with Christ to Reap the full Harvest of his Sufferings to receive the compleat Deliverance which he hath procured to enjoy all the blessed Fruits of his Death all the Purchase of his Redeeming Blood This he will come again to bestow upon those who believe expect and prepare for it Some Inferences of Truth and Duty may be collected as the Application of what has been said 1. That Believers under the Old Testament and under the New have the same Object of Faith They did eat the same spiritual Meat and drink the same spiritual Drink Their Sacraments and ours have different Signs but in Substance were the same Theirs having Relation to Christ the Messiah as well as ours Accordingly we read of Circumcision and the Passover in a spiritual sense under the Gospel And that which answers to Baptism and the Lord's Supper with us Even they under the Old Testament had 1 Cor. 10.2 3. They were under the Covenant of Grace though not so clear a Dispensation of it as we They were
our will to love what he loves to hate what he hates to have the same Friends and Enemies with our Blessed Lord. For here we put God in mind of his Covenant with us through Jesus Christ and our selves in mind of our Covenant with God And upon renewed Repentance for any sins we have committed after any Instance of Vnfaithfulness to our Solemn Engagements by unsuitable walking we here implore his Mercy and Grace to pardon us We declare at the same time that we desire to take hold of his Covenant that tho we are Sinners we are not Apostates we confess our sins and beg Forgiveness and repeat our Resolutions of Fidelity to him We trust in the unshaken Faithfulness and Truth of God to his gracious Promises We place our hope and confidence in the stability of his Everlasting Covenant which the Blood of Jesus the Blood of the Covenant hath confirmed and made Everlasting Not Trusting in our own Faith but in his Free Mercy and invariable Truth not in our Repentance but his Gracious Pardon not in our own Preparations but his Merciful Acceptance of us in his Beloved Son not in any thing we our selves can do but in the Merits of Christ the Fruits of his Death and the Purchase of his Cross as dispensed and applied according to the rule method and tenor of the Gospel-Promise This is our Priviledge and this our Employment at the Table of our Lord. And there is hardly any Subject will better bear to be treated of in several different methods than this or upon which repeated Discourses by several Persons may be more useful I grant there are many Excellent Books already written to Instruct Men in the Nature and to direct and assist their Devotion in the Observation of this Holy Sacrament I design not to wrest them out of their hands into whose this may fall I pretend not to add but to urge and prosecute the same Great End and sometimes by the same Arguments and Expressions I acknowledge my having profited by the Writings of others I hope 't is what they design'd These Discourses were acceptable to many when Preacht and being since reviewed some of them with some Enlargement I hope they may be of use at least to those who heard 'em and desired their Publication And it must be granted that what is of so Universal and Important a Concern as a due Participation of this Ordinance ought to be Treated and Inculcated in as many different ways as may best suit the Various capacites of several Persons It may be a shorter Account of the Doctrine of the Lord's Supper with Meditations and Devotions adapted thereto would be more proper for the Younger and more Ignorant Sort this I have promised and intend but have not yet had time to perfect The Lord follow this and all Endeavours for the Furtherance of Real Godliness with an Abundant Blessing London May 9th 1693. J. S. THE CONTENTS The First Discourse OF Vnion to Christ and the New Creature Or a Preparatory Sermon to the Lord's Supper on the First Day of the Year From 2 Cor. 5.17 If any Man be in Christ he is a New Creature p. 1. The Second Discourse Of Christ's passing over the Brook Kedron and entring into the Garden of Gethsemine After the Lords Supper From John 18.1 2. When Jesus had spoken these words he went forth with his Disciples over the Brook Cedron where was a Garden into which he entred and his Disciples and Judas also knew the place For Jesus oft times resorted thither with his Disciples p. 49. The Third Discourse Concerning Spiritual Washing the Nature Means and Evidences of it Before the Lords Supper From 1 Cor. 6.11 And such were some of you but you are washed but you are Sanctified but you are Justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God p. 89 The Fourth Discourse Of the Communion of Christ's Body and Blood After the Lord's Supper From 1 Cor. 10.16 The Cup of Blessing which we bless Is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ The Bread which we break is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ p. 129 The Fifth Discourse The Sin and Danger of Unworthy Receiving Before the Lord's Supper From 1 Cor. 11.29 He that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh Damnation to himself p. 163 The Sixth Discourse Of Christ's Last Passover And its Accomplishment After the Lord's Supper From Luke 22.15 16 17 18. With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer For I say unto you I will not many more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God And he took the Cup and gave thanks and said Take this and divide it among your selves For I say unto you I will not drink of the Fruit of the Vine until the Kingdom of God shall come p. 199 The Seventh Discourse Before the Lord's Supper From Cant. 2.4 He brought me into the Banquetting-house and his Banner over me was Love p. 243 The Eighth Discourse After the Lord's Supper From St. John 20.27 28. Then said he unto Thomas Reach hither thy Finger and behold my Hands and reach hither thy Hand and thrust it into my Side and be not faithless but believing And Thomas answered and said unto him My Lord and My God p. 281 A Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer Our Father c. The First Discourse Of Vnion to Christ and the New Creature OR A SERMON Preparatory to the Lord's Supper On the First Day of the YEAR From 2 COR. V. 17. If any Man be in Christ he is a New-Creature THROUGH the Merciful Forbearance of God we now begin another Year and have outlived several who a twelve month ago were as like to have seen this New years-day as any of us That we may begin it with some Serious Reflexions suitable to the beginning of the Year and the approaching Solemnity of the Lord's Supper I have chosen these words as proper unto both They are brought in as one Inference among others from the constraining Love of Christ which the Apostle had mentioned in the 14th Verse Many useful things might be observed in explaining the Context and shewing the Connexion of this with the preceding Verses But I shall at present consider them more absolutely and in the General If any Man be in Christ he is a New Creature or Let him be a New Creature He ought to be so The Original will bear either sense The words may be taken imperatively or affirmatively For we find not Is in the Original It is true that whoever is in Christ is a New Creature And it is true that he is obliged thereby to prove his Union to Christ he ought to be a New Creature Neither sense is to be excluded That the State of such as are in Christ and likewise their Obligation may be comprehended It is the Character and Qualification of such as are in Christ and it is their Duty
Consolation and full Assurance and raised Joys at the Table of the Lord never while we live yet the Authority of Christ requiring us To do this in Remembrance of him should be enough to determine our Practice against all the little Cavils and Objections that may be made against it O let us not be wanting in our Duty and the God of Love and Grace who is the Father of Mercies and our Gracious Redeemer of whose Compassion we have had such large and dear Experience will never be wanting to those who diligently and sincerely seek him THE END The Sixth Discourse After the LORD'S SUPPER OF Christ's Last Passover And its Accomplishment From LUKE XXII 15 16 17 18. With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you befoâ—e I suffer For I say unto you I will not any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God And he took the Cup and gave thanks and said Take this and divide it among your selves For I say unto you I will not drink of the Fruit of the Vine until the Kingdom of God shall come GReater Love hath no Man than this saith our Blessed Lord than to lay down his Life for his Friend To part with that for Another which of all things is the dearest and the most valuable to himself In all Ages of the Christian Church there have been some ready to give this Proof of their Love to Him who spake these words by not loving their Lives unto the Death when they stood in Competition with their Fidelity to Christ And with how much the greater Chearfulness and Alacrity Willingness and Desire they did it by so much the more powerful and constraining was the Principle of Love By this we may make some Judgment what manner of Love it was wherewith the Lord Redeemer loved us when he gave Himself for us an Offering and a Sacrifice of a sweet smelling Odour unto God The Voluntariness of his Sacrifice argued the Excellency of his Incomparable Love Though his Death was Necessary with respect to the Eternal Purpose and Appointment of Heaven For it was by the determinate Counsel of God that the Messiah should suffer Death And though it were Violent with respect to the Instrumentality of Men in his Crucifixion they did it with violent hands Yet with reference to himself his Death was voluntary He made a willing Sacrifice of his own Life He laid it down None else could have taken it from him He gave himself a Ransom He became Poor He made himself of no Reputation He poured out his Soul unto Death It was not rent from him He was obedient to Death even the Death of the Cross This gave an extraordinary value to his Sufferings Upon this depended the Merit of his Sacrifice and the Efficacy of his Blood And this is one endearing Circumstance which heightens his Love and calls for our thankful Admiration He willingly offered himself in the first Council of Peace about our Redemption and undertook to suffer for us and make satisfaction to Divine Justice And after his Incarnation he always knew and frequently foretold his own Sufferings and Death He reproves Peter as if he acted the Devil's part when he would have disswaded him from it Yea he most earnestly desired this most bloody Baptism I have a Baptism to be Baptized with and how am I straitened till it be accomplished Luke 12.50 The night before his Sufferings he makes his last Will and Testament and leaves it with his Disciples Giving his blood to drink in the Sacrament to show hâ—w willingly he would pour it out the next dâ—y upon the Cross And on this Account he so earnestly desired to eat this Passover which the Text speaks of because it was the last before he should suffer Death And afterwards even the same Evening he goeâ— out into the Garden where he knew he should be betrayed And so in effect he brings himself to the Door of the Tabernacle to be offered to God a Sacrifice for us With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer As if he had said The Sufferings I have so often spoke of are now approaching The hour is at hand when I shall be betrayed and Crucified This is the last Passover I shall ever keep with you before I am lifted up from the Earth And therefore I most earnestly desire it because it is the last that will precede my Death Whereby I shall put an end to these legal Services which have all along referr'd to me and to the Sacrifice and Oblation I am to make for sin Henceforth I will eat and drink no more of the Passover Supper for my own Sufferings and Death is that which they signified and related to I am the true Paschal Lamb All the Rites and Observances about the killing and eating of it were but Typical of my Passion and shall now be fulfilled And here 1. I shall consider the Passover which our Lord desired to eat of 2. His ardent Desire to eat of this Passover and the Reason of it 3. The Company with whom he desired to eat it With you 4. The Time when Before I suffer 5. The Accomplishment of it in the Kingdom of God What we are to understand by the Kingdom of God and what by the fulfilling of it therein 6. His Resolution and Declaration That he would eat and drink no more so till it were Accomplished Lastly Some Reflections as the Application of the whole 1. Concerning the Feast of Passover You have the Institution of it Exod. 12. the beginning Where we find that it was appointed by God as a Memorial of the Israelites slavery in Egypt and their Deliverance out of it Former Miracles having been unsuccessful upon Pharaoh God intends to slay all the First-born of Egypt in one Night whereby in part the Curse of God pronounc't on Chaâ—â— is execâ—ted on his Posterity viz. the Egyptians in destroying All the First-born of botâ— Man and Beast The Israelites were ordered by Moses to slay a Lamb on the Fourteenth day of the First Month which answers to our March and to Sprinkle the Posts of their Doors with the Blood of that Lamb and to feed upon the Flesh of it in their several Families That very Night the destroying Angel strikes the First-born of every Family where this Command of sprinkling the Door-posts with the Blood of the Lamb was not observed On this you know they were delivered out of Egypt the Egyptians not only giving leave but dâ—siring them to be gone And this Deliverance being the Foundation of the Jewish State was to be perpetually observed by them in their Generations and to be an Ordinance for ever Exod. 12 42. The whole Institution of the Paschal Lamb is called by the Name of the Passover though it refer especially to the first Lamb in Egypt whose blood was sprinkled on the Door-posts of the Israelites Houses when the destroying Angel passed them by And the
simply But 2. Let us consider more particularly how these Things with Relation to the Jewish Passover were accomplished by Christ as the Lamb of God to take away Sin And that will appear if we consider four Things 1. The Person of Christ as our Passover or Paschal Lamb 2. His Sufferings and Sacrifice 3. The Fruits and Benefits of them to us 4. The way and manner of our Participation of these Benefits 1. The Person of Christ who is the true Paschal Lamb. I shall not stay to consider the Resemblance of his Character to a Lamb for Meekness for Patience for Submission and Obedience He was brought as a Lamb to the Slaughter and as a Sheep before the Shearers is dumb so he opened not his Mouth Nor that the Pasâ—hal Lamb was to be without blemish sound and entire without Bruise or Maim Thus holy was Christ in his Conception and Birth and in all the Actions of his Life A Lamb without blemish and without spot 1 Pet. 1.19 Holy harmless and undefiled separate from Sinners Heb. 7.26 Nor how the Lamb was set apart and chosen for three days and killed the fourth answered by Christ's being set apart to his Prophetical Office wherein he manifested himself for about three years before he offered himself a Sacrifice in the fourth year Those that write concerning the Types are large upon this Subject 2. We may consider his Passion and Sufferings the Fulfilling of it as to his Death and the Time of it The Paschal Lamb was to be Roasted with Fire Which might not only put them in Mind of the Hardships they endured in the Brick Kilms of Egypt but Prefigure the Sufferings of Christ as crucified and pressed when his strength was dryed up like a Potsheard and his Tongue did cleave to his Jaws Psalm 22.15 The Time also of his Suffering agreed with the Time of the Jewish Passover About the Ninth Hour or Three a Clock in the Afternoon the usual Time that the Passover was to be Killed 3. As to the Fruits and Effects of his Sacrifice there is a further Accomplishment of the Type For the destroying Angel is diverted from the Israelites Houses The Blood of a Lamb could not Merit or procure this but as it Represented the Blood of the Messiah Whereby the Wrath of God is quenched and we delivered from Satan the great Destroyer And as this was the Earnest of their Deliverance from their Bondage in Egypt By the Death of Christ we are set free from a much worse Slavery 4. Consider the manner how we partake of the Benefit and Fruits of Christ's Sacrifice Our Hearts must be sprinkled with the Blood of Christ as the Israelites were to sprinkle the Blood of the Lamb on the Door-post of their Houses They were to feed upon the Flesh of the Paschal Lamb We are in a Spiritual sense to do so with Reference to Christ John 6.53 They were to eat it with sour Sauce with bitter or wild Herbs Repentance for Sin must be joyned with Faith in a Saviour Vnleavened Bread was to be thrown out of the House And you know how the Apostle applies this unto those who are called to keep the Feast even that Feast upon the Sacrifice of Christ at his own Table 1 Cor. 5.7 8. Not with the Leaven of Malice and Wickedness But with the Vnleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth It was Remarkable as to the first Passover It was to be eaten in hast with their Loins girt Shoes on their Feet and a Staff in their Hand As Pilgims and Strangers here who are hastning to a better Country which God hath promised and which their Canaan may Mind us of and make this also Applicable to our Case Which will bring me to the Sixth and last thing Sixthly and lastly The Resolution amd Declaration of Christ to eat and drink no more of this Passover till it be accomplished Some think that the 18th Verse I will drink no more of the Fruit of the Vine till I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdome is misplaced and ought to come in after the Institution of the Lord's Supper as it is placed by the Evangelists Matthew and Mark. * 83. Homil. in Matthaeum Chrysostom thinks it Refers to his Eating and Drâ—nking with his Disciples after his Resurrection in this World That he would not any more Eat and Drink till he had suffered Death and was risen again And then to manifest the Truth of his being Risen he did condescend to satisfie and convince them in that manner But there is little ground for that Interpretation It is not improbable but our Lord may Allude here to the Custom of the High Priests who coming out of the Holy of Holies did keep a Feast of Joy with his Friends For if he were a Wicked Man say the Jews he died in the Place If a good Man he came out safe And then he Rejoyced with his Friends and kept a Feast where they were wont to drink New Wine To this Custom our Lord may Allude in this Expression thereby telling his Disciples That he should not sink in the Performance of what he underto k * Dr. Allix in the great Offering that he was to make to God his Father but come off with Success And then they should Rejoyce and Feast together He would drink new Wine with them in the Kingdom of his Father Some think the Evangelist Luke as to Christ's drinking new Wine Refers to the Lord's Supper that was to follow And as he Recites the Words they are more Intelligible than as they are mentioned by St. Matthew or Mark. He Annexes them to the Passover Cup though the other Recite this Passage after the Cup in the Lord's Supper But the Words might have been spoken by Christ before And 't is easier to Transpose the Words in Matthew and Mark to the unmentioned Occasion which was immediately before the Lord's Supper than to Transpose the whole 19th and 20th Verses in Luke before the 17th Verse which would also make it a Tautology By the Kingdom of God all the Evangelists seem to mean the Gospel Dispensation which was to Commence in the Lord's Supper as the first of that sort for the Baptism of John and of the Disciples of Christ before his Death was different from Baptism since the New Testament Baptism Acts 19.4 5. The Lord's Supper by Anticipation did signifie and shew forth the Lord's Death This is my Body broken for you He supposed it broken and himself sacrificed and the Passover fulfilled Jesus Christ being the Lamb of God Typified and Presignified by the Paschal Lamb till his Sacrifice of himself And so to put a Period to the former Oeconomy on which the Gospel Dispensation did ensue The Term New till I drink it New may be accounted for and that some of the Evangelists say that Day I 'll drink it New though it were the same Hour because it Refers to a different Period and Dispensation viz. The
of thy Adorable Perfections that we may so Glorifie thy Name in the Eyes of the World that others seeing our Good Works may Glorifie Thee our Father who art in Heaven To this end Let thy Kingdom come Thy Kingdom Come O Thou who Reignest among the Armies of Heaven and over all the Inhabitants of the Earth rule in our Hearts by the Power of thy Word and Spirit Subdue every Lust and inordinate Affection in us Mortifie all the Rebellion of our Wills and the Enmity of our Carnal Minds and Hearts that we may no longer be in Slavery to the Devil and to foolish Criminal Passions but our Understanding Will Affections Conscience and Conversation be more intirely Conformed to thy Holy Pleasure and Precept And after the Establishment and Advancement of thy Kingdom of Grace in our Souls perfect it in due time by admitting us to thy Kingdom of Glory And let all the Kingdoms of the World submit to the Scepter of our Lord Redeemer that he may Rule to the ends of the Earth Let all the People praise thee and Worship thee O God let all the People Praise thee Let not Satan the Usurping God of this world Tyranize over so great a part of this Earth But let the Kingdom of thy Grace be enlarged and thine Authority be more generally submitted to in all the World Let the everlasting Gospel of the Blessed God be publisht understood believed and obeyed from the Rising of the Sun to the setting of the same And as the Effect of the Coming of thy Kingdom in Power Let thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Thy Will be done Thy Will O God is the Measure of Holiness and Peace the Rule of Justice Truth and Perfect Wisdom Oh that it may be the Rule of our Desires that our Will may be intirely conformed to Thine All thy Works are Wisdom and all thy ways of Providence are Judgment Let us adore thee as Infallible in all the Revelations of thy Mind and as Wise and Good Just and Holy and True in all Thou do'st Let us acquiesce in thy good Pleasure as knowing nothing can be better done than what thou orderest In Fulness and in Want in Joy and Sorrow in Life and Death thy Holy Will O Lord be done Let us obediently comply with thy Preceptive Will in all thou hast commanded and humbly submit to thy Providential Will in all thou shalt appoint and be satisfied with our Portion Station and condition here on Earth Let us be govern'd in all things by thy Holy Will with Cheerfulness and Readiness and Faithfulness and Zeal without Deceit Delay or Murmuring Complaints That we may observe and please thy Will on Earth as the Angels do in Heaven where thou art loved delighted in and obeyed in Perfection And let all the World we beseech thee joyn with us and them to praise and glorifie thee with one heart and one voice and one consent and be the Servants of thy Holy Will for ever But our Satisfaction in thy Declared VVill doth not hinder but we may Ask the necessary Supports of Life We pray thee therefore Give us tbis day our Daily Bread Thou takest Care of our Souls provide also we beseech thee for our Bodies Prolong our Lives till we have finisht the Work of Life and answered the Ends of Living Continue a suitable and convenient Supply for the Necessities of our Nature Give us that Health Protection Peace and Plenty which may best assist us in our present Duty and tend to our Comfortable Accompt in the Day of Reckoning Thou hast directed us not to Chuse either Poverty or Riches because of the Temptations of either extreme Give us therefore Food Convenient according to that Rank and State and Condition thou hast plac'd us in or may'st hereafter do That so the Temptations of the Right Hand may not make us Wanton Secure and Proud forgetful of Thee and our Selves and the greater Concerns of Eternity or our Hearts be set to make Provision for the Flesh to fulfil the Lusts thereof And that on the contrary by the Snares of Poverty and pinching Straits we may not be tempted to doubt or deny Thy Providence or quarrel with it that we may not be exposed to Contempt and Misery and thereby to Impatience Distrust and Despair Keep us from undue Sollicitude about these things and give us Contentment with our present Condition Grant us that measure and proportion of Temporal Blessings which may enable us the better to serve and glorifie thee And whatever thou do with us let us be Calm and Quiet and Thankful and never admit any dishonourable Thoughts of thy Rule and Government Let us own Thee as the Original and Fountain of all our Good and faithfully depend on Thee for the Supply of all our Wants But whatever thou give us of Earthly Good Lord what will it avail us when our Sins are so many and great unless thou Forgive and Pardon us Therefore we beseech thee O Lord to Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that Trespass against us Look upon us with a Merciful Eye for we are here before thee in our Trespasses Forgive our Sins of Ignorance and of Wilfulness those of Presumption and those of Infirmity secret and open in heart and word and deed the Vanity of our Minds the Carelesness of our Spirits the Wickedness of our Hearts the Irregularity of our Affections the Folly of our Lips and all the Omissions and Commissions of our past Lives from our Birth and Infancy to this very hour Look not upon our Offences but cast our sins behind thy Back Remember 'em not against us to our Punishment and Condemnation We beg this for the sake of our Blessed Saviour who hath made Expiation for Sin by his Cursed Death For his sake be Reconciled to us and remember our Iniquities no more and seal to us the free and full Forgiveness of them by the Witness of thy Holy Spirit that we may Rejoyce in God through Jesus Christ as having received the Atonement Enable us by a large and Evangelical Charity heartily to forgive all those who have any way troubled or injured or offended us lest our Prayer be turned into sin and thou deny us that Pardon which we deny to our Fellow Creatures That having by thy Grace this Character of thy Disciples and Children we may reap the Benefit of thy Pardoning Mercy here and in the other VVorld But because tho we should be forgiven for the Time past we shall run into the like sins again and contract New Guilt and fall an easie Prey to Temptation we beseech thee preserve us from being tempted or overcome when we are Lead us not into Temptation Lord we are Weak and Ignorant and Inclined to that which is Evil and our Adversary the Devil goes about like a Crafty Serpent and a Roaring Lion seeking whom he may deceive and destroy let us never be Careless Secure and Confident of our selves He is a Malicious Experienc't Watchful Envious Unwearied Enemy let us not be Ignorant of his Devices Enable us to Mortifie the Love of Sin and Inward Lust and diligently avoid the Occasions and Appearances of Evil the Incentives and Provocatives to Wickedness And suffer us not to be Tempted above what we are Able Order our Conditions and Affairs so as we may be free from great and Dangerous Temptations Help us that by taking to us the whole Armour of God we may be able to withstand the Wiles and Assaults of Satan that by the Protection and Guidance of thy Providence the Ministry of thine Angels and the Aids of thy Good Spirit we may not enter into Temptation and yield to it that Such as we cannot avoid may not prevail against us to thy Dishonour and our Eternal Ruin Deliver us from the Evil of every Temptation and from the Evil One the Tempter and from other Evils to which we are Incident But deliver us from Evil. Forgive what is Past Remove what is Present Prevent what may otherwise be to come from Sin and Shame from the Malice of the Devil and the Falshood and Treachery of Men from open Enemies and unfaithful Friends from the Deceits of the VVorld and the Lusts of the Flesh but above all from thy VVrath and Vengeance due to our Sins VVe Beseech thee to deliver and save us Pardon us so freely that all the Sufferings of this Life may be turned from Evil to Good that if thou smite us here with the Rod of a Father thou may'st spare us hereafter That all things may work together for our Advantage and that in every Condition we may be kept from Sin To that end Deliver us from the Evil One the Great Enemy of thy Glory and our Salvation Let us resist him stedâ—astly in the Faith that he may flee and we may Conquer We acknowledge our own Weakness and desire to be sensible of it and therefore humbly Invoke thine Aid and Help O save us from an Impenitent hard Heart while we live and let us Finish our Course in thy Fear and Love let us dye the Death of the Righteous and not have our Portion to all Eternity in that Region of Darkness and Torment which thou hast prepared for the Devil and his Angels For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Thou art able to do all this for us as the All-mighty Wise and Holy Lord and Governour of the VVorld whose Glorious Perfections are displayed and honoured in all thy Works We hope the granting these our Supplications will advance the Mightiness of thy Kingdom and Manifest thy Power Mercy and Truth For of thee and to thee and through thee are All Things to Thee be Glory for ever and ever Amen As Thou sayest so it is As Thou hast Promised So it shall be And as we have Prayed we Beg it may Be Amen and Amen THE END