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5. 'Tis pretended, that outward eating and drinking is not Spiritual Worship. But this is a great Miftake. For I have fhewn, that 'tis Gofpel Worship; and all Gofpel Worship is certainly Spiritual, in oppofition to that worship of the Law which was Carnal. Nay, 'tis Spiritual in its own nature alfo. Forafmuch as tho' the outward Ceremony be performed, yet the mind is chiefly imployed. Nor does the outward Action destroy the Spirituality thereof, any more than kneeling (which our Adverfaries allow) deftroys the Spirituality of Prayer.

6. 'Tis faid, that breaking of Bread and drinking of Wine was a Jewish Ceremony. Yes, and without doubt 'twas an Heathenish Ceremony too; unless the Heathens could live without Meat and Drink. But yet eating Bread and drinking Wine. in obedience to Chrift's Inftitution, in remembrance of his Crucifixion, and as the means of partaking of his Body and Bloud, never was a Jewish Ceremony. And if it were, yet fince Chrift's commands it, we are indispensably bound to observe it.

7. 'Tis faid, that this outward eating and drinking are but a Shadow. But they are fuch a Shadow as Chrift has enjoyned. To be fure, they are not one of thofe Shadows which prefigured Chrift's coming, nor were they ufed after our manner before his coming. And therefore the pretence of their being ceafed because of their being a Shadow, is ridiculous; efpecially fince we have a divine Command to obferve this Shadow.

8. We are commanded to feek thofe things which. are above, Col. 3. 1. and to fet our affections on things above, and not on things on the Earth, v.2. whereas, fay they, the outward eating and drink

ing are not things above, but things on the Earth. Now if fuch Objections need an Anfwer, I return this, that the means and conditions of attaining things above, are all of them things below, fuch as Prayer, Alms, Juftice, &c. And indeed by this way of arguing they may prove, that 'tis our duty to practife no Religion at all, except it be a Religion in the Clouds.

9. The Apostle faies, Let ng Man therefore judge you in Meat or in Drink, Col. 2. 16. And therefore this outward eating and drinking which we call the Lord's-Supper may be difufed; efpecially fince all these things are to perish with the ufing. v. 22. But the Apoftle there fpeaks of certain Jewish Ordinances. which are indeed cea fed; but will any Man from thence conclude, that Christ's own Inftitutions may be abolished.

10. St. Paul speaking of the fame Jewish Obfervances, faies, the Kingdom of God is not Meat and Drink, but Righteousness, &c. Rom. 14.7. But the answer given to the last objection ferves for this alfo.

11. Our Savior faies, Labor not for the Meat that perifbes, &c. John 6. 27. From whence our Adverfaries conclude, that eating Bread and drinking Wine are not to be regarded. But the true Sense of these Words has been already given, ch. 24. p. 294. and I need add nothing more to fhew the impertinency of this pretence.

As for the Manner, Time, Frequency, Circumftances, &c. of receiving the Lord's-Supper, they are not the fubject of our prefent Difpute. And therefore I refer the Reader for Satisfaction , as to fuch Particulars, to the London Cafes, or to the Abridgment of them, and to thofe other Books wherein thefe and the like Matters, are largely treated of.

FINI S.

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