Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1735 edition. Excerpt: ... may Prayer, and fo may this Rife, be called, by a ftrong figure of Speech; and fo may Every thing elfe, which leads us to a Life of Virtue: every Step of which may be ftyled, by the fame figure, the Nouriihment and Strength of our Souls, towards a farther improvement. But the Danger of a Miftaken Expectation, from calling This fo, is the Greater; becaufe, the Rite itfelf confirming in eating Bread and drinking Wine, the Exprefilon is apt to convey the Notion of fomething mechanically or miraculoufly conveyed at the lame Time into the Soul, which is Food to That, as the Bread eaten is to the Body. But This, and other Miftakes arifing from various Forms of ExpreJ/ion are, I think, originally owing to our neglecting the fimple primary Idea, annexed to this Inftitution, of the Remembrance of Ckrifts Death: a Notion, which, conftantly attended to, would guard Us againft the Errors arifing from all forts of ExprefCons. And to this we fhall always carefully attend, unlefs We can come to think the" fole Account left Us, by Chrift and his Apoftjes, of \\ DEGREESlnftitution, too low and plain for us to be contented with j and greatly to Hand in need of our Additions to heighten and improve it. This will teach us the true Senfe to be put upon that AnJ'iuer in our Church-Catechifm, which declares the Benefits of which We are Partakers, in this Rite, to be, The ftrengthning and refrefoing of our Souls by the Body and Bloud of Chrift, as our Bodies are by the Bread and Wine: "viz. That, as Bread and Wine, coniidered only as Natural Food, ftrengthen and refre(h our Bodies; fo, This Bread and Wine, confidered and taken as Memorials of the Body and Bloud of Chrift our Mafter, lead Us, by their peculiar Tendency, to all fuch Thoughts and Practices, as are...
