A Plea for the Use of the First Reformed Liturgy

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London, 1883

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Page 44 - His death, yea, the communion of the body and blood of the Lord, in a marvellous incorporation, which by the operation of the Holy Ghost (the very bond of our conjunction with Christ) is through faith wrought in the souls of the faithful, whereby not only their souls live to eternal life, but they surely trust to win their bodies a resurrection to immortality.
Page 44 - For doth any man doubt but that even from the flesh of Christ our very bodies do receive that life which shall make them glorious at the latter day; and for which they are already accounted parts of his blessed body? Our corruptible bodies could never live the life they shall live, were it not that here they are joined with his body, which is incorruptible...
Page 40 - For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Page 21 - Hear us, O merciful Father, we most humbly beseech thee, and of thy Almighty goodness vouchsafe so to bless and sanctify with thy word and Holy Spirit these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine, that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy most dearly beloved Son...
Page 30 - Hear us (O merciful Father) we beseech thee ; and with thy Holy Spirit and word vouchsafe to bl^ess and sanc>i<tify these thy gifts, and creatures of bread and wine, that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ.
Page 36 - As Christ is a priest in heaven for ever, and yet does not sacrifice Himself afresh, nor yet without a sacrifice could He be a priest ; but by a daily ministration and intercession represents His sacrifice to God, and offers Himself as sacrificed : so He does upon earth by the ministry of His servants i He is offered to God, that is, He is by prayers and the sacrament represented or offered up to God, as sacrificed...
Page 23 - LORD and heavenly FATHER, according to the institution of Thy dearly beloved SON, our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, we Thy humble servants do celebrate and make here before Thy Divine Majesty, with these Thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto Thee, the memorial Thy SON hath commanded us to make...
Page 44 - ... thus much we must be sure to hold, that in the Supper of the Lord there is no vain ceremony, no bare sign, no untrue figure of a thing absent.
Page 29 - Scotch office in preference. The alterations which were made in the Communion Service as it stood in the first book of Edward VI., to humour the Calvinists, were, in my opinion, much for the worse...
Page 48 - This place of Scripture, howsoever now in a manner silenced and forgotten, was once, and that in the oldest and purest time of the Church, a text of eminent note, and familiarly known to every Christian, being alleged by their pastors and teachers, as an express and undoubted prophecy of the Christian Sacrifice or solemn worship in the Eucharist, taught by our blessed Saviour unto His disciples, to be observed of all that should believe in His name ; and this so generally and grantedly, as could...

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