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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44410	A discourse concerning Lent in two parts : the first an historical account of its observation, the second an essay concern[ing] its original : this subdivided into two repartitions whereof the first is preparatory and shews that most of our Christian ordinances are deriv'd from the Jews, and the second conjectures that Lent is of the same original.	Hooper, George, 1640-1727.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2700; ESTC R29439	185,165	511

Answer to them the Master tells the Story of the Miseries of their Fore-fathers using also the Words in Deuteronomy (h) Deut. 26.5 A Syrian ready to perish was my Father c. Upon this the Table was brought again and He taking the Paschal Lamb in his hands and Elevating it propos'd to himself the Question Why it was offer'd and gave the Reason And so he elevated severally both the bitter Herbs and the unleavened Bread and after all the several Reasons given he subjoin'd a Hymn Let us therefore celebrate praise extol him who has done so many and so great and such stupendous Wonders To Him let us sing Hellelujah Praise the LORD ye Servants of the LORD concluding so Thanks be to thee O GOD King of the World who didst redeem us and our Ancestors and hast brought us to this Night Here they all drank again in the same manner as at first and wash'd again likewise here again beginning their Supper For then he took two unleavened Cakes and dividing one he put one half of it over the other Cake the half Cake being as they say to remember them of their former Poverty and so said over the Bread a Blessing After he dipp'd a piece of the Cake with some of the bitter Herbs in the Sauce and eat having blessed God with a proper Prayer and distributing to the rest to eat likewise So with a proper Prayer they tasted of the Peace-Offering and with another of the Lamb and after they fed freely of what was before them Only each was bound at the close of the Supper to end with some of the Lamb eating the Quantity of an Olive at least as they now do with a piece of one of the half Cakes which they substitute in place of the Lamb. When they had done eating they wash'd their hands and each having a third Cup distributed to them the Master having said over it the Grace after Meat and it is term'd thence the Cup of Blessing they drank it off And then there was another the fourth Cup put into their hands and the Hymn being re-continued with its proper Conclusion they again thanking God for the Fruit of the Vine drank that also and after that no more that night it being now towards midnight and they being after this to meditate yet on their Paschal Deliverance Thus according to the Tradition of the Jews the Paschal Supper was celebrated while the Temple stood and ever since it has been kept much after the same manner though the Paschal Lamb has been wanting And possibly if I might be allow'd to interpose a Guess in this matter this Supper might have been observ'd as now it is without the Sacrifice even when the Temple was in being by such as after the first Dispersions by the Assyrian and Babylonian Kings continued afterwards in remote Parts and not being able to keep the Feast at Jerusalem by reason of their Distance were however willing to keep up the solemn Memorial of that great Deliverance in the best manner they cou'd and as it is now done § II. NOW to this Account the History of our Saviour's Paschal Supper agrees The Cup mention'd by St. Luke (i) Luk. 22.17 19 20. which he took before the Bread and giving thanks divided it amongst his Disciples seems to have been their first Cup and might be however their second And the Bread which after he had given thanks he brake and gave to them was the same they now so bless and distribute after the second Cup. And lastly the Cup after Supper the Cup of Blessing as it is call'd by St. Paul in express Terms (k) 1 Cor. 10.16 what should it be but what the Jews call by that name and with which they thank for the Meal the third Cup Neither because our Saviour says in St. Matthew (l) 26.29 after the Cup that he would not henceforth drink any more of the fruit of the vine will it therefore follow that he did not drink the fourth Cup. For the same Saying is put in St. Luke (m) Luke 22.18 before the first Cup and can there signifie no otherwise than in general and that after that Solemnity was wholly over he would not drink of it except we will suppose that what he gave to the Disciples he took not himself But however this may be the Gospel hath yet one farther Particular agreeable to the Description of the Jews That when they had supp'd they sung a Hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives (n) Matth. 26.30 to meditate And it has besides been observ'd that our Saviour when he spoke the Bread to be his Body might have had a peculiar respect to that Phrase of the Body of the Lamb and could it be admitted that in those days as now an unleaven'd Cake was by any substituted for the Body of the Lamb It might then have been the easier understood to represent our Lord's Body These are the particular Correspondencies between the Paschal and the Lord's Supper and there was too another general one in their Nature as they were both of them to be Memorials of a former bloody Atonement Feasts of present Joy and Thanks but not without some afflictive Remembrance for the Past Here therefore it appears and from the Relation of the Scripture that our Lord thought fit to raise his other Sacrament likewise out of a Festival Commemoration the Jews were commanded to keep for their old Deliverance And hereafter it will appear further by the Construction the Primitive Church made that our Saviour in the Institution of his Feast did not consider only that single Annual Solemnity of theirs but their other more frequent Sacrificial Entertainments of Praise and Thanksgiving (o) See C. 7. of this Repartit CHAP IV. § I. The Church of Christ succeeds to the Church of the Jews § II. The Officers of the One rais'd from the Officers of the Other The Apostles of each § III. And the Bishops § IV. The Presbyters or Elders of the Jews § V. The Christian Presbyters and their Power § VI. The Ministerial Officers of the Jews § VII Answered by our Deacons THE Two Sacraments we see as they are described in the Scripture appear to have been transferr'd from the Old Testament to the New and by the one of them we are Admitted into the Christian Covenant and by the other we Recognize it Now those who were admitted into the Mosaical Covenant were admitted into a Body or Society and this Body had its Governours and Officers and whether the Christian Church were not a like Body and with like Officers we shall next inquire and from Scriptural Authority § I. And first It is plain that the Church of Christ comes into the place of the Congregation of Israel For it is known that the Word in the New Testament which we Translate Church is the same with that which stands in the Greek of the Old for the Congregation or Body of that