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Plain Lectures on the Holy Communion

Plain Lectures on the Holy Communion

Maitland, Pelham

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ISBN10: 115140134X
ISBN13: 9781151401342
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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.1847 Excerpt: ... mighty sacrifice for which our praise is due. We pray; we join with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, in their song of Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Hosts; we consecrate bread and wine to represent the body and blood of Christ, and we partake of them; and the whole act, from first to last, is reckoned as one, the most solemn of all sacrifices of thanksgiving which can now be offered by man to God, and hence called the Eucharist, which means thanksgiving. This, then, is our bounden duty and service, a duty and service equally binding on us as was the Passover on the Jews. For Moses said to the Israelites, and ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever; and Christ has now commanded us in His Holy Supper in thankful ascription to the Father and Himself, to shew His death till He come. Secondly: --The Passover was a feast upon a sacrifice; and our Divine Redeemer has maintained the same thing in principle in his Holy Supper. He and His Apostles had for the last time, as an ordinance of God, eaten the Paschal lamb and the unleavened bread which accompanied it, and drank of the cup which then formed part of the feast: and then in the appointment of bread and wine to represent His body and blood, He ordained that these should be likewise partaken of when they had first symbolically displayed His Sacrifice. This was the case with many of the Legal sacrifices besides the Passover, which were first offered to God upon the altar and Communion Service. then eaten by the priests and the people. And this was done that it might be shewn that those who offered the sacrifice were partakers of the benefit of it; and, therefore when our Lord decreed that the bread and wine should be taken with the mouth, He...

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