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own words to be for a remembrance of him; he saying, when he gave the bread, "This do in remembrance (or for a remembrance) of me." And having given the cup, he said, "This do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me." It also most clearly appears from the account which Paul has given us of this sacred institution, in which he informs us of the significancy of its several parts, its use, and end, that it is to bring Christ and his sufferings to remembrance. For as the bread and wine are symbols of Christ's body and blood; so the breaking of the bread is a memorial of our Lord's body which was broken for us; and the wine as poured out, being distinct and separate from the bread, is a memorial of the sufferings which our Lord sustained, when he made his soul an offering for sin.

And believers in their observance of this ordinance should be employed in a particular manner in thinking upon, and calling to mind the love of Christ, to recollect with wonder, gratitude, and praise, his unknown sorrows, agonies, and sufferings: Christ being here represented

as their substitute and sacrifice, as having been made sin and a curse. He is here set forth as "evidently crucified before their eyes," as having finished the transgression, made an end of sin, made reconciliation for iniquity, and brought in everlasting righteousness; and as such he is here the peculiar and proper object and subject of our remembrance. His sufferings and passion are what our minds and thoughts should be engaged and employed about, and our faith should here be exercised on the slain and bleeding Lamb of God. For as the breaking the bread, is a memorial of our Lord's body being broken, it reminds us of his death on the cross, which was a most painful one. The cross was a rack, as well as gibbet, in which were many deaths contrived in one. The body of our Lord, being as one justly observes, of most excellent crasis, exact and just temperament, his senses were more acute and delicate than ordinary; and all the time of his sufferings they so continued, not in the least blunted, dulled, or rebated by the pains he suffered. The death of

Christ doubtless contained the greatest pains imaginable.

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The sufferings of our Lord's human soul, which are represented to us by the wine as poured out, were beyond all conception. He endured in his soul the whole curse due to the sins of all the elect. And as Christ's sufferings in body and soul, together with the dissolution of his human nature, soul and body, by death itself, are what our faith should be engaged on, as the grand subject of remembrance at the Holy Table; so it becomes us, as being one grand end of this institution, to have our minds solemnly engaged in calling over, and pondering upon, the everlasting compact between the Father and the Son; the sacrifice of the immaculate Lamb, being the one grand article of it, and from whence it receives its everlasting efficacy to be available for us. Hence the apostle says, By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." Referring to the will of Jehovah the Father, notified to his coequal Son in the council and covenant

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of peace, according to which Christ acted, and with whom, in the whole of his mediatorial undertakings, work, and sacrifice, Jehovah the Father was well pleased. We should so remember Christ's offering himself, as to put our whole trust and confidence in his propitiary oblation. Let us look up to the Holy Spirit for his gracious influences and presence with our souls, that in waiting upon the Lord at his table, we may inwardly experience, feel, and have actual fellowship with Christ in all the blessings and benefits of his one sacrifice upon the cross.

The Lord bless what has been delivered as far as agreeable to his will.Amen.

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SERMON III.

A DISCOURSE

DELIVERED PREVIOUS TO THE CELEBRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER.

DEARLY beloved in the Lord, being assembled at this time for the mutual exercise of prayer and praise, previous to our remembrance of Christ's sufferings and death in the celebration of his holy supper; I shall, therefore, according to our usual method and custom, as the Lord may be pleased most graciously to assist, give you a word for the employment of your minds and thoughts suitable to the present meeting. I would, if the Lord pleased, lead you to consider the ineffable love, stupendous grace, and everlasting mercy of our great High Priest, Christ Jesus, by whom we draw nigh unto God.

It is an everlasting truth, that Jesus our beloved, is worthy of all our love,

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