Wine, as a Scripture Symbol; Baptism - And the Holy Supper. Three Discourses (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISCOURSE. This do in remembrance of me. Luke xxii. 19, last clause of the verse. These are the Lord's words with respect to the holy supper, pronounced at the time of its original institution. They constitute the commandment which he perpetually gives in regard to that sacred ordinance ? a precept of divine truth uttered after the glorification of his humanity had far progressed, and the unition of it to his essential divine nature was almost complete. None of our Lord's injunctions are merely arbitrary commands; they are- all precepts of infinite love. They all tell us of something, through the practice of which we may be led forward continually to the enjoyment of greater and greater happiness. They give us clear and. distinct directions concerning the way in which we may come to those spiritual places where heavenly gold is found, and of the means bywhich we may appropriate that gold to ourselves. Every one of the divine truths encloses a mine of exhaustless good within it, and points the direction in which the vein runs, if we are only willing to work it. The natural man doubts or disbelieves this; but the spiritual man gradually comes to a perception of it through living experience. This external divine sacrament of the supper, therefore, must contain within it an interior meaning; and its observance must perform an interior use. Let us, then, for a few moments endeavor to look, first at its meaning, and then at its use, as tlrese are made to appear in the light of the New Jerusalem. The regeneration of man ? that process, we mean, by which his spirit is wholly renovated or made over? consists of two distinct parts. These run side by side, like two halves, in parallel lines to each other, throughout the entire course of our sanctification. The first part...