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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32091	A practical discourse concerning vows with a special reference to baptism and the Lord's Supper / by Edmund Calamy.	Calamy, Edmund, 1671-1732.	1697 (1697)	Wing C274; ESTC R6151	137,460	320

him to devote our selves to him a fresh as ever we would keep his Favour for which we at no time have such an Advantage as at his Table Which will be further evident from 3. A THIRD Consideration which is taken from that which we feast upon at the Lord's Table viz The Memorials of the great Christian Sacrifice The most general and proper Notion of the Lords Supper and to which all that relates to it may very aptly be referr'd is this That it is a solemn Feast upon the Memorials of that Sacrifice of Infinite Vertue that was offer'd by our Saviour upon the Crofs for Sin Which Notion is too large to be here distinctly handled and therefore I shall meddle with no more of it than what concerns my present purpose It is easie to observe how commonly Covenants between God and Man were attended with Sacrifices Thus it was in Noah's case 't was the same in Abram's case so also Sacrifices accompanied the Covenant God enter'd into with the Israelites all in a Body and by such Sacrifices offer'd the Covenants made were confirm'd IT may be further observ'd That Sacrifices were founded upon a Covenant The Covenant God enter'd into with the Iews requir'd them to offer up the several Sacrifices prescrib'd in the Law which had they not been founded on a Divine Covenant would have been no way likely to have been accepted But suppose the Covenant once settled that requir'd them and Sacrifices appear to have been Faederal Rites they were Memorials of the Covenant between God and the People Memorials to God put-him in mind of his Promises and Memorials to the People putting them in mind of engaging aed quickening them to their Duty Each Sacrifice offer'd imply'd a Covenant Transaction between God and him that made the Oblation Which points to the true meaning of that passage which some have esteem'd so difficult Gather my saints together that have made a Covenant with me by sacrifice For Sacrifices were appointed to be signs and seals of the Covenant between God and his People Whereto our Blessed Lord seems to allude when at the Institution of the Supper he says This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood Which is qu. d. Covenants were of old Ratify'd by Sacrifices the Blood of the Sinner being originally required by the Law but the offering being of the Blood of another Creature But I pour out my own Blood for you and behold I now I give it to you It is therefore a New Covenant because not seal'd with the Blood of Victims but my Own Blood Which is also intimated by the Apostle when he says Not by the Blood of Goats and Calves but by his Own Blood He enter'd into the Holy Place and for this Cause he is the Mediatour of the New Testament IT may be further observ'd That as Sacrifices were heretofore Seals of the Covenant so was eating of the Sacrifices a proper Appendix of most of their Oblations They had four sorts of Sacrifices in use among them Burnt Offerings Sin Offerings Trespass Offerings and Peace Offerings Burnt Offerings were wholly offer'd up to God and consum'd on the Altar neither Priests nor People having therein any part or portion In Sin Offerings and Trespass Offerings God had a part consum'd on his Altar and the Priests a part to eat of who eat of them as the Peoples Proxies they being Mediators with God for them who by bringing an Oblation for a Sin or Trespass were suppos'd to be sensible of a Defilement But of their Peace Offerings as God had a part and the Priests a part so had they themselves also who brought them a part of which they might eat together with their Friends Feasting and Rejoycing before the Lord. We have in the Old Testament divers instances of Persons feasting before the Lord on these Sacrifices that were call'd Peace Offerings Thus we find Moses and Aaron and all the Elders of Israel Offering Sacrifices and Feasting upon them before God when they had done So also at the general Covenant before mention'd many Sacrifices being offer'd we find They eat and drank and saw the Lord and upon the Nobles of the Children of Israel he laid not his hand And again we find Elkanah making an yearly Journey to the Holy City to Offer Sacrifices and Feast upon them with his Family before the Lord and many other passages are there of the same nature which its needless to mention IT may be further observ'd That the thus eating of Gods Sacrifices was a Faederal Rite between God and those that offer'd them For God designing to have a peculiar Residence among the Jews resolv'd to Live as 't were in Regal State among them And therefore the Temple was his Palace the Priests and Levites his Guard and Attendance His House had its several Apartments for several Offices and Furniture suited thereunto on the Altar was his Fire whi●…h was never to go out and the Sacrifices offer'd were his Provision Not that he could really eat the Flesh of Bulls and drink the Blood of Goats as he upbraids those who were apt to rest in Externals But he by these things and their Allusive Significations serv'd sundry wise and great ends and purposes Now Sacrifices then passing under the Notion of Gods Provision it was a mark of great favour to be admitted to partake of them And Sacrifices being seals of the Covenant the Feasting upon the Remainders of them was a further engagement to the Offerers of them to stand to their part of the Covenant with God of whom by their being admitted to feast with him they had reason to hope they were accepted LET not any think all this a Digression for besides that such Thoughts and Reflections as these may be of use by helping us to understand these matters without some light in which and in others of the like nature we must necessarily be in the dark when we are reading the greatest part of the Old Testament besides this I say they are all to my present purpose because of the resemblance these things carry in them to those that I am now upon For as Sacred Covenants were heretofore attended with Sacrifices so the Covenant between God and us that Covenant on which all our hopes are founded is attended with and confirm'd by the Sacrifice of our Saviour which at his Table we Commemorate As their Sacrifices were Faederal Rites and Signs and Seals of the Covenant between God and the People so is our Solemn Commemoration of the Sacrifice once offer'd for us on the Cross a Faederal Rite and this Sacred Institution a sign and seal of the Covenant between God and us founded in the Blood of our Dearest Saviour And as they were then to make a Covenant with God by Sacrifice so are we now to strike Covenant with him over the Memorials of our great Gospel Sacrifice Further as the Jewish Feasts were upon the Flesh of the Sacrifices they