Sermons, &C. &C. [Ed.] with a Memoir, by C. Bowdler (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. 1833. Excerpt: ... A TREATISE, CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF SEVERAL SERMONS THE LORD'S SUPPER. A TREATISE ON THE LORD'S SUPPER. This do in remembrance of me. We are here, in an eminent degree, the creatures of time and sense. When man departed from God, he fell down the precipice of infinity and eternity; separating himself, by the first transgression, wholly from his spiritual parent, he became conversant only with matter. Raised, however, from the ruins of the fall, our destiny is infinitely higher and more glorious than if we had never transgressed: our love to God and to each other is destined to lose every earthly alloy, every terrestrial adhesion, and to live eternally in the friendship of God himself; immediately on his fulness in body, as well as soul, without the intervention of any second cause. The Jews were burthened with many ceremonies indicative of the important truth, that sin was not atoned for. The Christian rites are very easy and very simple--Baptism, and the Supper of the Lord. The former shewing the absolute necessity of the renovating influences of the Divine Spirit; the latter teaching us, that as united to Christ, we are to live eternally on his fulness; God being pleased, in his infinite love and condescension, to teach us, by the use of things with which we are naturally well acquainted, and which are most beneficial to us. Bread is emphatically called the staff of life: when we connect with it the other element, we may consider bread and wine as symbolical of the spiritual food, and spiritual medicine, which we find in Christ the Saviour. The Lord, in ordaining this supper, seems to have superseded the sacrifice and typical use of the paschal Lamb. The paschal Lamb typified the redemption of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. The Lord's supper ...