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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46707	A plain and short discourse concerning the nature of the Lord's Supper, and the end of celebrating it to which is added, A paraphrase of all those places in the New Testament, wherein the Lord's Supper is mentioned / by John Jeffery ...	Jeffery, John, 1647-1720.	1699 (1699)	Wing J516; ESTC R1646	20,211	33

A PLAIN and SHORT DISCOURSE Concerning the NATURE OF THE Lord's Supper AND THE END of Celebrating it To which is added A PARAPHRASE of all those Places in the New Testament wherein the Lord's Supper is mentioned By JOHN JEFFERY D. D. Arch-Deacon of Norwich LONDON Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1699. A PLAIN and SHORT DISCOURSE Concerning the Nature of the Lord's Supper IT has with great wisdom been always judged fit That men should be admitted into the Fellowship of that Religion they profess by some solemn Rite of Initiation and that men should be frequently reminded how their Religion obliges them to live by repeated Ceremonies of Commemoration So it was in all the false Religions that were invented by men and so it has been in the true Religions that were established by God Thus men were admitted into the Fellowship of the Jewish Religion by Circumcision and were reminded of the Obligations of their Religion by the three yearly Festivals We Christians are admitted into the Fellowship of our Religion by Baptism and we are reminded of the Obligations of it by the Lord's Supper There is but one Baptism as there is but one Admission We are Baptized but once because we are admitted into the Number of the Disciples of Christ but once To pretend to receive those into the Church of God who are in it already is absurd and therefore we are but once Initiated But as 't is necessary that they who profess the true Religion should live according to it So because men are apt to forget and neglect their Religion therefore it is requisite they should be often put in mind of the Obligations they are under from their Religion and that they be often persuaded to live as they are obliged For this great and wise Purposé the Lord's Supper is appointed viz. For a Solemn Remembrance of the setting up the Religion by the Son of God our Saviour at his Death That by such a sensible Commemoration we may be prevailed with to live as Christians I shall First Manifest this to be the Design of our Blessed Lord in appointing his Supper And Secondly Draw some Instructions from thence concerning the Celebrating of the Lord's Supper First I shall manifest this to be the Design of our Blessed Saviour in appointing his Supper by it to remind his Disciples of the Obligations they are under from his Religion and to persuade them to live according to those Obligations The Design of our Saviour in this Institution will best be understood by the words he used when he first appointed it and the meaning of those words must be gathered from the use of them in the Holy Scripture And what I have to say to this purpose I shall comprehend in the following Particulars 1. The Jewish Religion when it was set up was called the Covenant and since with respect to the Christian Religion the First and Old Covenant The Christian Religion also is called the Covenant and by way of distinction from the Jewish Religion 't is called the Second and New Covenant That the Jewish Religion was called the Covenant see Exod. 24.8 and the word which we there translate Covenant is in the Translation of the LXX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same which is the Title of the Two Volumes of the Scriptures the Jewish and Christian and when used in those Scriptures is translated by Covenant or Testament As the Jewish Religion considered absolutely in it self is called the Covenant Heb. 8.6.9 10. and Heb. 9.16 17. Heb. 8.7 v. 8. so compared unto the Christian Religion is called the First and Old Covenant or Testament and the Christian Religion is called the Second and New Covenant or Testament If the first Covenant had been faultless then should no place have been sought for the second For finding fault he saith Behold the days come saith the Lord when I will make a New Covenant c. and Jerem. 31.31 34. In that he saith a New Covenant he hath made the first old c. Thus as the Jewish Religion is called the First and Old Covenant or Testament so the Christian Religion is called the Second and New Covenant or Testament And this Title is given to the Books in which the Doctrine of the Christian Religion is contained The New Testament or Covenant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to distinguish it from the Jewish Religion and the Books in which the Doctrine of that Religion is contained which is called the Old Testament or Covenant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies a Law Vid. Grot. ad Tit. N.T. and a Covenant and a Testament or Last Will. A Law has the nature of a Covenant and a Covenant has the Nature of a Law as Aristotle observes And so we sometimes speak calling the Jewish Religion the Old Law and the Christian Religion the New Law And as a Covenant lays upon men such an Obligation as a Law does so when the Covenant is between Superiors and Inferiors and especially when it is between God and men it comes nearer to the nature of a Law A last Will or Testament has also the nature of a Covenant and a Law for it obliges those who are concerned according to its Tenor and they who would receive any Benefit from such a Will or Testament must perform the Conditions required in it And as both these Religions were established by Blood and the Christian Religion was established by the Death of Christ so the New Covenant has the similitudes of a Will or Testament Heb. 9.16 For where a Testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the Testator whose Will and Testament it is 2. The Jewish Religion or the Old and First Covenant or Testament was set up by Sacrifice and the Blood of the Sacrifice is called the Blood of the Covenant The Christian Religion or New and Second Covenant or Testament was also set up by Sacrifice i. e. the Death of Christ and his Blood is called the Blood of the Covenant and distinctly The Blood of the New Covenant or Testament The Jewish Religion the Old and First Covenant or Testament was set up by Sacrifice therefore God says concerning the Jews Psal 50.5 Gather my Saints together unto me those that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice And how that was done we may see Exod. 24.3 Moses the Mediator of that Covenant between God and the Jews came and told the People all the Words of the Lord and all the Judgments and all the People answered with one voice and said Exod. 24.7 All the words which the Lord hath said will we do The words of this Covenant Moses wrote in a Book and offered Sacrifice and took the Book of the Covenant and Read in the Audience of the People v. 6. and they said All that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient And as Moses