CONTENTS. Page Dis. I. The Nature of the Lord's Supper : "This is my body which is given for you. This cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you;" Luke xxii. 19, 20.3 II. The Design and Obligation of the Lord's Supper: "This do in remembrance of me;" Luke xxii. 19. III. Unworthy Communicating : " Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the SER. I. The death of Christ : " Jesus yielded up the II. The Crucifixion of Christ: "There they crucified him;" Luke xxiii. 33. III. The High Priesthood of Christ: "Jesus hath received a more excellent ministry;" IV. The Bloody Baptism of Christ : "I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how Discourses after the Administration of the Lord's Supper. II. The Christian Exhorted and Encouraged to Exertion : "Be strong, and let not your hands be weak; for your work shall be rewarded;" 2 Chron. xv. 7. 287 DISCOURSES SUITED TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. PART I. DISCOURSES BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. A DISCOURSE I. THE NATURE OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. LUKE XXII. 19, 20. This bread is my body, which is given for you:-this cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you. CHRISTIANITY is honourably distinguished, by the simplicity and spirituality of its ordinances and duties, not merely from those false religions which have in every age imposed on the credulity or the fears of mankind, but also from Judaism, the only other religion which justly lays claim to a divine origin. By far the greater part of the Christian code is occupied with the duties which naturally arise out of the relations which man bears to the Supreme Being, and to his fellow-men. Love to God and love to man, form the two cardinal requisitions of the law of Christ; and its particular injunctions are but illustrations or exemplifications of these two leading principles. It is comparatively but a very small part of the Chris tian law that is occupied with ritual observances. Under the Old Testament economy, ceremonial institutions bore a very considerable proportion to the general mass of religious duty. On those who lived under that dispensation, were imposed numerous fatiguing and expensive observances, the meaning of which was in many cases obscure; and the obligation of which |