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tion of it to others", by serious and thankful confideration of the nature of it, and of the ends for which Chrift inftituted it, the privileges and benefits conferred and fealed thereby, and our folemn vow made therein; by being humbled for our finful defilement, our falling fhort of, and walking contrary to, the grace of baptism and our engagements; by growing up to affurance of pardon of fin, and of all other bleffings fealed to us in that facrament'; by drawing strength from the death and refurrection of Christ, into whom we are baptized, for the mortifying of fin, and quickening of grace'; and by endeavouring to live by faith', to have our conversation in

p Pfal. 22. 10, II. I was Gaft upon thee from the womb; thou art my God from my mother's belly, Be not far from me, for trouble is near.

q Rom. 6. 3, 4, 5

Rom. 6. 2, 3. God forbid: how fhall we that are dead to fin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that fo many of us as were baptized into Jefus Chrift, were baptized into his death? I Cor. I 11. 12, 13. Gal. 3. I.

f Phil. 3. 7-10, II. But wha things were gain to me, thofe I counted lofs for Chrift: That I may know him, and the power of his refurrection, and the fellowship of his fufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I

may attain unto the refurrec-
tion of the dead: &c. Rom. 4.
II, 12. I Pet 3 21.

t Rom. 6. 2, 3, 4. How
fhall we, that are dead to fin,
live any longer therein? Know
ye not, that fo many of us as
were baptized into Jefus Chrift,
were baptized into his death?
Therefore we are buried with
him by baptifm into death:
that like as Chrift was raised
up from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even fo we alfo
fhould walk in newness of life,
&c.

v Gal. 3. 26, 27. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jefus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Chrift, have put on. Christ.

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holiness and righteousness", as thofe that have therein given up their names to Chrift, and to walk in brotherly love, as being baptized by the fame Spirit into one body.

Q. 168: What is the Lord's fupper?

A. The Lord's fupper is a facrament of the New Teftament", wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to the appointment of Jefus Chrift, his death is fhewed forth; and they that worthily communicate, feed upon his body and blood, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace; have their union and communion with him confirmed"; teftify and re

w Rom. 6. 22. But now being made free from fin, and become fervants to God, ye have your fruit unto holinefs, and the end everlasting life.

x Acts 2. 38. Be baptized every one of you in the name of Jefus Chrift.

y 1 Cor. 12. 13---25, 26. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free;that there fhould be no fchifm in the body; but that the members fhould have the fame care one for another. And whether one member fuffer, all the members fuffer with it, or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

z Luke 22. 20. Likewise al

fo the cup after supper, faying, This cup is the New Teftament in my blood, which is shed for you.

a Mat -26. 26, 27. And faid, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, faying, Drink ye all of it. John 6. 55, 56. My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 1 Cor. 11. 23---27.

b I Cor. 10. 16. The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread, which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

new their thankfulness and engagement to God", and their mutual love and fellowship each with other, as members of the fame mystical body.

Q. 169. How hath Chrift appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the facrament of the Lord's fupper?

A. Chrift hath appointed the ministers of his word, in the administration of this facrament of the Lord's fupper, to set apart the bread and wine from common ufe by the word of institution, thanksgiving and prayer; to take and break the bread, and to give both the bread and the wine to the communicants: who are by the fame appointment to take and eat the bread, and to drink the wine; in thankful remembrance that the body of Christ was broken and given, and his blood fhed for them".

Q. 170. How do they that worthily communi

CI Cor. 11. 25. This cup is the New Testament in my blood: This do ye as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of

me.

d I Cor. 1o. 16-21. The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: Ye cannot be par

takers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

e 1 Cor. 10 17 For we being many are one bread, and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread.

f Mark 14. 22, 23. 24. And as they did eat, Jefus took bread, and bleffed, and brake it, and gave to them, and faid,

This is my body. And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. 1 Cor.

cate in the Lord's fupper feed upon the body and blood of Chrift therein ?

A. As the body and blood of Christ are not corporally or carnally present in, with, or under the bread and wine in the Lord's supper; and yet are fpiritually prefent to the faith of the receiver, no less truly and really than the elements themselves are to their outward fenfes"; fo they that worthily communicate in the facrament of the Lord's fupper, do therein feed upon the body and blood of Chrift, not after a corporal or carnal, but in a fpiritual manner; yet truly and really', while by faith they receive and apply unto themfelves Chrift crucified, and all the benefits of his 'death".

Q. 171. How are they that receive the facrament of the Lord's fupper to prepare themselves before they

come unto it?

A. They that receive the facrament of the Lord's fupper are, before they come, to prepare

11. 23, 24. Mat. 26. 28. Eph. 2. 11, 13.

26-living bread, which came down

g Acts 3. 10. Whom the heavens must receive, until the times of reftitution of all things.

h Gal. 3. I. O foolish Galatians before whofe eyes Jefus Christ hath been evidently fet forth, crucified among you. Heb. II. I.

i ohn 6. 51-53. I am the

from heaven: if any man eat of this bread he fhall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I wil give for the life of the word. Except ye eat the fiefh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

k I Cor. 10, 16. See in d

themselves thereunto, by examining themselves', of their being in Chrift", of their fins and wants"; of the truth and meafure of their knowledge", faith"; repentance, love to God and the brethren', charity to all men', forgiving thofe that have done them wrong', of their defires after Christ', and of their new obedience"; and by re

11 Cor. II. 28. But let a man examine himself, and fo let him eat of that bread, and drink that of cup.

m 2 Cor. 13. 5. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own felves; know ye not your own felves, bow that Jefus Chrift is in you except ye be reprobates?

n I Cor. 5. 7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Chrift our paffover, is facrificed for us: Compared with Exodus 12. 15.

o 1 Cor. 12. 29. Are all apoftles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

p 1 Cor. 13. 5. See above in m.

q Zech. 12. 10. And I will pour upon the houfe of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerufalem, the Spirit of grace and of fupplications; and they fhall look upon me whom they have pierced; and they fhall mourn for him, as one mournzth for bis only fon; and fhall

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be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bittterness for his firstborn. I Cor. 12. 31. For if we would judge ourselves, we fhould not be judged.

r I Cor. 10. 17. For we being many, are one bread, and one body, for we are ali partakers of that one bread.

f 1 Cor. 5.8. Therefore let us keep the feaft, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of fincerity and truth. 1 Cor. 11. 18, 20.

t Matt. 5. 23, 24. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remembereft, that thy brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come, and offer thy gift.

v John 7. 37.-Jefus ftood and cried, faying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink Ifai. 55. 1. Luke 1. 53. He hath filled the hungry with good things. W I Cor. 5. 8. Therefore let us keep the feat, not with e

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