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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	abraham_n	covenant_n	seal_n	6,171	5	9.8580	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47298	An help and exhortation to worthy communicating, or, A treatise describing the meaning, worthy reception, duty, and benefits of the Holy Sacrament and answering the doubts of conscience, and other reasons, which most generally detain men from it together with suitable devotions added / by John Kettlewell ...	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1683 (1683)	Wing K369; ESTC R14112	224,392	528

and expresly ratify and confirm it too This may fairly be presumed to be one end of the Holy Communion because it is the end of Baptism which St. Peter calls a Stipulation and which as we have seen is our entrance into the Gospel-Covenant and Religion And since it is so evidently the use of that in great likelihood it is of this too for both the Sacraments were still held of like Vse Nature and Signification Nay this was the end not only of the Christian but also of the Jewish Sacraments which shews it was not peculiar to any one but runs through all of them For as for Circumcision it was a Federal Rite or Sign It bound the Jews as before it had done the Patriarchs to God and God to them in the Covenant Moses gave them by a mutual Obligation For therein they promised to perform all that the Law injoined He that is Circumcised says St. Paul is a Debtor to keep the whole Law Gal. 5.3 And thereby they were assured of the Righteousness and Benefits God had promised Abraham received Circumcision as a Seal of the Righteousness of Faith says the same Apostle i. e. as a Seal or Confirmation of the Promises made to it Rom. 4.11 And because it was thus a sign to both parts and a Rite used at their engaging in it Circumcision is call'd the Covenant i. e. the Solemn Ceremony and undertaking of it Gen. 17.10 Act. 7.8 And then as for the Passover it also was a Covenanting Ceremony and Federal Rite as may sufficiently appear from its being a Feast on Sacrifice which is the most Solemn way of Covenanting with God And this use of the Passover is of the greater weight to conclude the same of the Lords Supper because among us this answers to it and comes in stead of it It answers to it I say for our bleeding Lord was the Great thing which their Sacrificed Lamb signified whence he is called the Lamb without Blemish and without Spot the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World and the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of Mankind and our Feasting upon his body and blood is the same with their Feasting upon it as St. Paul plainly intimates when he says Christ our Passover is Sacrificed for us therefore let us keep our Eucharistical Feast upon him in it answerable to what they did upon the Lamb in theirs 1 Cor. 5.7 8. And at the Institution of the Holy Sacrament our Saviour intimated that the Passover was abolish'd and that this was henceforward to succeed and come in stead of it For immediately before he appointed his own Supper he tells them he would not any more eat of the Lamb or drink of the Wine in the Passover i. e. he would abolish this so as we should no more eat or drink of it and substitute that in place of it Luc. 22.16 18. And now since 't is the general Nature of Sacraments both among Jews and Christians to be Covenanting Rites since Baptism plainly is that goes hand in hand with it and since the Passover was which preceded and answered to it this being substituted in place and put instead of it in all likelihood the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is a Federal Feast and a Covenanting Rite too But to prove this yet more particularly That this Holy Sacrament is intended for a Federal Rite and for our Renewal and Ratification of the New Covenant will appear 1 st From the words of Institution wherein the Cup is call'd the New Covenant and we are bid to drink of it which is a Federal Rite and the Bread is call'd Christs Body to the same intent as the Paschal Lamb was which was a Federal Conveyance of it 2ly From its being a Feast upon Sacrifice which is a Federal Feast for Sacrifice is one way of Covenanting with God and by Feasting on the Sacrifice we joyn in and partake of it 3ly From all the particular Blessings of the Covenant being conveyed by it which otherwise than by Federal Promises or Performances are not to be had 1 st That o●r eating Bread and drinking Wine in the Holy Sacrament is intended for a Federal Rite and for our Renewal and Ratification of the New Covenant appears from the words of Institution wherein the Cup is called the New Covenant and we are bid to drink of it which is a Covenanting Rite and the Bread is call'd Christs Body to the same intent as the Pascal Lamb was which also was a Federal Conveyance of it 1. In the words of Institution the Cup is called the New Covenant This Cup says our Saviour is the New Testament or Covenant in my Blood 1 Cor. 11.25 And we are all bid to drink of it which is a Federal Rite and was then a known Ceremony of confirming any Covenant Drink ye all of it says he to his Disciples Mat. 26.27 This drinking of it as it is an Application of it to our selves and taking it into our own Bodies is a plain sign of our ingaging in it and adhering to it for thereby we shew that we close with and embrace it But this is still further evident because anciently among the Jews and other Eastern Nations eating and drinking were Federal Rites whereby they were wont mutually to Seal Leagues of friendship and confirm Covenants with each other For they used to bind their Compacts by a Friendly Treat and to consummate them in all Hospitable Entertainment Thus we read in the Story of Laban and Jacob for when Laban demands Come thou let us make a Covenant I and thou Gen. 31.44 Jacob's Consent to it is expressed by this he said unto his Brethren Gather stones and they took stones and made an heap and did eat there upon the heap by that Note of Friendship answering the Demand and confirming the Covenant which was proposed v. 46. And so Joshua's Covenanting or making Peace with the Gibeonites when they came to sue for it is called his taking of their victuals Josh. 9. the men took of their victuals and asked not counsel of the Lord and Joshua made Peace with them and made a League with them to let them live Josh. 9.14 15. And Obadiah mentions being in Covenant with any one and Eating Bread with him as Words that signifie the same Thing whereof the one is the others Explication The men of thy Confederacy have brought thee even to the border says he i. e. have almost quite bereft thee of thy own Country the men that are at Peace with thee have deceived thee they that eat thy Bread have laid a Wound under thee in which Description of the Enemies of Edom tho' there be Variety in the Expression yet is one and the same Thing meant by them Obad. v. 7. And the same might appear from other Instances both in the Scriptures and in Prophane Authors Since in the Words of Institution then our Saviour tells his Disciples the Cup is the New Covenant