The Doctrine of the Most Holy Eucharist as It Is Contained in the Words of Institution

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1877 Excerpt: ... pass away, and to give place to the distinctive rite of the new dispensation of His grace. Now the new kingdom of God was to begin upon earth, by the institution of one of its most distinctive mysteries. Having therefore by that last passover put an end to the Jewish economy, the Lord God Incarnate proceeds to reveal this mystery of the new law. His first action, we perceive, is to take up from the old, and to carry on into the new, those very chief and significant fruits of the earth which had been all along used by His command in the sacrificial worship of the old. He grafts the new upon the old. He does not destroy, but He fulfils the old. The dread hour being come; Jesus took bread. Now here we cannot but call to mind one of the most ancient and most remarkable of all the old prophecies and types of our Lord's priesthood: one so often quoted in the New Testament: Thou art a Priest for ever; after the order of Melchisedec (Ps. 110). A priest after the order of Aaron, would have brought forth for the material of his distinctive worship some animal for a bloody sacrifice. But a priest after the order of Melchisedec, brings forth, as he did, only those fruits of the earth, bread and wine. Here then we cannot but behold our true Melchisedec, bringing forth to His disciples these fruits of the earth, that they should form the earthly materials of His one distinctive worship, in all nations, and for all ages, even till He come again. So St. Augustine writes: when Melchisedec blessed Abraham, then for the first time there appeared that sacrifice which is now offered by Christians throughout the whole world. And Cyril of Alexandria says: Melchisedec received the symbol of that priesthood which is above the law, in order to bless Abraham, when he exhibited t...