Spiritual Sacrifice and Holy Communion; Seven Sermons Preached During the Lent of 1867, at the Church of S. Mary Magdalen, S. Leonard's on Sea (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1868 Excerpt: ... SERMON V. HOLY COMMUNION. FIRST PART. THE LORD'S BREAD. S. Matt. Xxvi. 26. As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My Body. S. Luke Xxii. 19. He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, this is My Body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me. If on approaching any subject, or venturing to expound any portion of divine truth, the Christian preacher has occasion to warn his hearers and to apply the maxim to himself, Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground; surely, my brethren, such is pre-eminently the case with the subject of our text, with that portion of the Word of God on which we are to speak and meditate to-day. We place ourselves on the threshold, as it were, of the innermost sanctuary of Christian doctrine as of Christian worship when we approach the consideration of this Holy Sacrament; and when we speak of the blessings which are there enshrined for us as sinners and pilgrims conscious of their unworthiness and of their distance from home, we deal with things into which the citizens of the heavenly country, the unfallen and the perfected, desire to look, and we contemplate blessings which kings and prophets under the Old Testament saw as through a glass darkly, in types and shadows, and died still waiting for. Among the first of such shadows is that which meets us in one of the opening chapters of Divine Revelation1, where we read how Melchizedek king of Salem, and by interpretation King of Righteousness and Peace, by office 1 Gen. xiv. 17--20. Comp: Heb. vii. 1--4; Ps. ex. 4; and Zech. vi. 13. See Note K. priest of the Most High God, met Abraham the Father of the faithful ...