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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77288	A sermon of the blessed sacrament of the Lords Supper; proving that there is therein no proper sacrifice now offered; together with the disapproving of sundry passages in 2. bookes set forth by Dr. Pocklington; the one called Altare Christianum, the other Sunday no Sabbath: formerly printed with licence. By William Bray, Dr. of Divinity. Now published by command.	Bray, William, d. 1644.	1641 (1641)	Wing B4316; Thomason E157_8; ESTC R22819	22,195	69

the New Testament in my Blood This Bread and This Cup that do Sacramentally exhibite the Body and Blood of our Saviour are here specially design'd 2. Ye have The Sacramentall actions and they are in like manner two Eating and Drinking answerable to the parts of the Sacrament eating this Bread and drinking this Cup. First wee must Eate It is not enough to purpose or desire to be Guests at this heavenly Table neither may wee be present onely as spectators and beholders to see and to gaze but we must tast and eat Secondly wee must Drinke the Cup too as well as Eat the Bread these two are joyn'd together by Christ in the Institution and they may not be sever'd by Man without manifest impiety 3. The Circumstances of the actions which make the third particular in this first generall they are likewise two The first is of Time Baptisme is to bee received once onely but this blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper often both out of a gratefull obedience to our Saviour and out of a carefull regard of our owne spirituall advantage by it As oft as yee eate this Bread and drinke this Cup. It is not barely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how oft soever which implyes a frequency The second circumstance is of the Persons Communicating Ye First Ye in the plurall number for this Holy Sacrament is a Communion may not be received by one alone Ye againe that are Members of the Church Ye are to eat of this Bread and drinke of this Cup. For he that is not entred into the mysticall body of the Church by Baptisme is no fit subject as yet to partake of these high and holy mysteries And these are the severals in the first generall part of the Text to wit the Service of the Communion In the second generall part which is the Meaning of this service ye have three particulars likewise each of them sutable to the three particulars in the former part of the Text wherein you have the speciall meaning of each part of the service declared First ye have the meaning of the Sacramentall bread and cup to wit the death of Christ Secondly ye have the meaning of our eating this Bread and drinking this Cup namely the shewing forth of Christs death Thirdly ye have the meaning of our often eating this Bread and drinking this Cup to wit the perpetuation of our Saviours memory so long as he is corporally absent from us here on Earth even till he come againe in his glorious presence to judge the quicke and the dead As oft as yee eat this Bread and drinke this Cup yee doe shew the Lords Death till be come Here 's a large field of matter I can but gather here and there an eare of corne as I passe along without making any long stay upon any particular I begin first with the Parts of this Holy Sacrament which is the first particular under the first generall and first with the Earthy part or outward Elements which are Bread and Wine The outward senses of Man are the windowes or gates of the soule nothing enters into the soule but by them wee understand nothing we know nothing whilst wee are here in the body but the eare or the eye or some one or more of the senses present it first to the soule and the more senses there are that present a matter to the soule the soule understands it the more cleerely and beleeves it the more strongly even as the opening of many windows le ts in the more light into the house God knowes our mould in this and considers it graciously and accordingly he vouchsafes not onely to instruct and perswade us by the Eare in the hearing of his word but by the Eye Taste Touch in the outward elements of this Sacrament which we may see handle and taste for our further instruction and confirmation If any man therefore presuming upon I know not what spirituall Revelations and Seraphicall raptures shall neglect the hearing of Gods Word for his instruction or if any other resting in the bare hearing of the Eare shall neglect this blessed Sacrament wherein God farther manifests himself to the faithfull Soule by the doore of the rest of the senses if there be any such presuming spirits they very much forget themselves that they are yet in the body Yea they forget God too and his gracious condescent herein to our corporeall weaknesse who best knows whereof wee are made and how best to consider it That there is an earthy and sensible part in the Sacrament therefore ye see great reason for it But what is the reason of the choice of Bread and Wine to be the sensible part in this Sacrament Was not the killing of the Paschall Lamb and the striking of the blood therof upon the lintell and side-posts of the doore a more sensible and cleere Resemblance of the shedding of the blood of the immaculate Lambe of God Why then was the Passeover abrogated and Bread and Wine in the place thereof substituted as the sensible part of this Sacrament To omit many other most proper Analogies and aptitudes in the Elements of Bread and Wine serving for this purpose I will only give you an account of this change thus in briefe The Old Testament you know is abrogated I meane in regard of the manner of Administration of it by the Leviticall and Ceremoniall Law and the New is now in force the Testator himselfe having confirmed it by his owne precious Death and Blood-shedding Hence the shedding of the blood of the Paschall Lambe is justly ceas'd For after so soveraigne an expiation by the Blood of Christ himselfe no shedding of blood is now necessary Heb. 9. 10. ch as the Apostle argues in the Epistle to the Hebrewes and hence this Sacrament of the New Testament in the breaking of the Bread and powring forth of the Wine most fitly succeeds in the place thereof as being the most apt and vive expression of blood already shed without new blood-shedding Besides though our heavenly Father knowes that even under the New Testament we have need of these outward and sensible things and that for the strengthening of our Faith whilst we are here in the body and therefore as ye read but now God in his infinite Wisedome and Goodnesse to us hath instituted Sacraments for us in the New Testament as well as in the Old which consist of an outward and sensible as well as an heavenly and spirituall part Yet there is a very observable difference of degrees at least betwixt the Sacraments and Services of the Old and New Testament even in this regard Those of the Law and Old Testament were more sensible and earthy but these of the Gospel and New Testament more pure and spirituall the Law being as it were the body to the Gospel and the Gospel being the spirit and life of the Law Thus the Passeover which was a more crasse and corporeall Sacrament