parts 1. Of all that Christ did and suffered for all the elect 2. That Christ was chosen of the Father to be redeemer of all the elect Ps 89.19 That the Father did preordain Him 1 Pet. 1.20 Sent Him Ioh. 3.17 Sealed Him Ioh. 6.27 Sanctified Him Ioh. 10.36 And that Christ was freely given of the Father Ioh. 3.16 And was made of the Father unto all the truly faithfull our wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 Es 9.6 And that Christ gave Himselfe freely for all the elect Eph. 5.2 So this Sacrament representeth both these unto us 2. That this Sacrament is the seale of the Gospel Rom. 4.11 shewing all that to the eye for it is a visible word which the Gospel presents to the eare Even that Christ is freely given of the Father and fully gives Himselfe in this Sacrament unto all who will take Him by faith as His own words prove Take eat this is my body Drinke this is my bloud Q. How can I take Christ A. Taking of Christ is an act of the will which act by faith takes Christ to be my Prophet to teach me Ioh. 15.15 To be my Priest whose sacrifice of Himselfe can only save me Heb. 7.24,25 And to be my King to apply salvation unto me Act. 4.12 And whose only laws concerning his worship and my salvation I must solemnly sweare to observe Ps 119.106 2. As I must take Christ by faith which wanting Gods best Ordinances profit not Heb. 4.2 So I must take Him to love Him above all things Philip. 3.8 for nothing can please the Lord which is not done in love 1 Cor. 3. passim 3. In taking Christ I must resolve and constantly endeavour to my best possibility to serve Him all the dayes of my life Luk. 1.74,75 Q. What learnest thou hence A. 1. Seeing Christ who is the full food of my soul is given of the Father freely gives himselfe in this Supper I must purge away all my native corruptions Es 1 16,17 and hunger for it Mat. 5.6 before I receive it 2. I admire the hellish obstinacie of Papists and Lutherans who confesse these words This cup c. to be a figurative speech The cup for the wine and yet will not allow so much when the Lord calleth the bread His body 3. Papists perversenesse who give not the wine unto the inferior sort of their receivers Do this in remembrance of me Q. What is here to be markt Q. Two things 1. Why is remembrance again commanded And secondly what is it that we must remember Q. Why is remembrance again urged A. Because of our natures totall corruption Gen. 5.6 Rom. 7.24 forgetting what we should remember and remembring what we should forget Q. How is that proved A. We are commanded to remember 1. The seventh day to keep it all holy Ex. 20.8 2. To remember and not forget how we provoke the Lord to wrath Deut. 9.7 3. To remember now our Creator in the dayes of our youth Eccles 12.1 4. To remember Lots wife for looking backe to sin Luk. 17.32 5. And in this Sacrament to remember Christ which all wee too often forget Againe we too much remember injuries which we are commanded to forget Mat. 6.15 So our memories are like strainers which keep the dregs and suffer the best to passe thorow Q. Are not all those from our memories weaknesse A. No but from our natures perversenesse for the world sin trespasses and vanities are too much remembred even of the faithfull Rom. 7.15 Q. What are we here to remember concerning Christ A. 1. We must remember what Christ hath done and suffered for us And that His blood which is my soulss spirituall drinke and which only can cleanse me from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 is fully and freely given here unto all faithfull receivers 2. We must remember this Sacraments four ends 3. That Christs bloud was shed for mee Mat. 26.28 4. And to imitate the Institution Q. What learnest thou here A. 1. To bewaile my natures perversity and my memories frailty 2. To frequent this Sacrament often that I may still remember what my Lord hath undergone for me V. 26. Yee doe shew the Lords death till hee come Q. What is here propounded A. Another end of this Sacrament Christs death Q. What was Christs death A. It was the last act of His voluntary humiliation in which He suffered the most extreame most horrible paines which were due unto all the elect by reason of their sins Q. Why is his death which is a passion called an act A. Because Christ did dispose himselfe willingly to undergoe it Joh. 10.11.18 Q. Why is Christs death called voluntary A. None could enforce Him unto it for He is omnipotent Esa 96. Rev. 1.8 19.16 His death was of power Col. 2.15 not of infirmity for observance of His Fathers will Mat. 26.39.42 for His love to the elect Ioh. 10.15 for satisfying His Fathers justice by victory 1 Cor. 15.54 and not succumbing by misery Act. 2.24 Q. Did our Saviour indeed suffer such extream torments A. Yes for his sufferings did equall all those eternall torments which the whole elect should have suffered Esa 53. Psal 22. Ioh. 19. Q. Christs sufferings being so short how is that possible A. 1. The eternity of paine the totall absence of Gods favour and such other circumstances accompanying the eternall torments of reprobates are not of the essence but are adjuncts of paine And therefore Christ did not undergoe them 2. Our Lord had sufficiency both of power and dignity to overcome death and all its circumstances Act. 2.24 1 Cor. 15.54.57 3. These limitations duly considered Christs death was the very same both in its kinde for it was accursed Gal. 3.13 and in its measure for he bare all the elects sinnes Esa 53.3,4,5 6. And His death did represent the very death of the damned fully Mat. 27.46 Luk. 22.44 Q. What doth this teach thee A. 1. Seeing that the Father spared not the Sonne of His love who did no sin neither was guil found in His mouth 1 Pet. 2.22 He will not spare me if I continue in any one knowne sin with delight Iam. 2.10 compared with Deut. 27.26 2. That the Lord is of purer eyes then to behold evill and cannot looke on iniquity Habbac 1.13 3. I must communicate often that I may shew alwayes the Lords death and that sinne live not in me Rom. 6.3 compared with v. 6. 4. If in this Sacrament I get Christ by faith then his bloud cleanseth mee from all sin 1 Ioh. 1.7 V. 27. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drinke this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and bloud of the Lord. Q. What is most remarkable in this verse A. Three things especially 1. What that sinne is which maketh unworthy receivers guilty of Christs body and bloud 2. How that unworthinesse maketh them guilty 3. And the ground or cause of that guiltinesse Q. What sinne is