TABLE SERVICES.

THE LORD'S SUPPER.

COMMUNION SERVICE.

TABLE I.

You ou are now, my chriftian brethren, come forward to the Lord's Table in obedience to

his dying command, "Do this in remem"brance of me.' I hope you are duly fenfible, that a bare historical remembrance of Chrift, is not enough upon this occafion; for even Judas remembers Chrift after this manner. He remembers with bitter repentance and infupportable anguish of mind, that he betrayed his holy and innocent Lord and mafter into the hands of his enemies. Pilate alfo remembers, that, to gratify the Jews, he paffed fentence of condemnation against the bleffed Jefus, although by his own confeffion, he found no fault in him. But it is with other fentiments

and views, that the friends of Jesus remember
him at his own table. They remember him
with the most lively gratitude, as that compaf-
fionate Saviour, who looked with pity upon
them in their low and loft eftate, when there was
no other eye to pity, or hand to help them.
They remember him as the lamb of God that
taketh away the fins of the world; and by
faith, they behold him in this ordinance, bear-
ing their fins in his own body on the accurfed
tree. If you, my chriftian friends, thus re-
member your Redeemer, you will confider
yourselves under the most binding obligations
to love, to honour and to obey him, who
loved and
himself for you.
you gave
You
muft not forget, my brethren, that it is a
practical remembrance of himself, which our
bleffed Redeemer expects and requires of those
who profefs his name. It is fuch a remem-
brance as warms the heart, enlivens the affec-
tions, prompts us to imitate him, and to
covet a participation of his Spirit, as well as
of his merit. You are called to remember
Chrift upon this occafion, not only as your

merciful high priest, who has atoned for your fins by the facrifice of himself, but also as your teacher and your guide, who is endued with heavenly wisdom to inftruct you, and who is also invested with authority to command you, according to the ancient prophecy concerning him, "I have given him for a "witness to the people, a leader and a com"mander to the people."

As often as you celebrate the memorial of your Redeemer's death, you must remember what he has taught you, as well as what he has purchased for you; firmly refolving, in an humble dependence upon the promised aids of his Spirit, to follow whitherfoever he leads, and that you will testify your gratitude for his love, by every poffible expreffion of it in your power, especially by a refpectful and reverential regard to his inftructions, and by a willing and chearful obedience to all his other commandments, as well as to his last and dying command, "Do this in remembrance of "me."

Trufting that you, my fellow chriftians,