Fides Catholica, or, The doctrine of the Catholick Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word, sacraments and prayer, in purity, number and nature, catholically maintained, and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts : with the solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to to [sic] the nature of each ordinance treated of / by Wil. Annand ...

SECT. II.

THe ends why Christ instituted his receiving of bread and wine to be a standing Ordinance in his Church, comes next to be considered; they were such as these.

• 1. For the remembering of the death of Christ, Luke 22.19. that our dull memories might be rubbed up by these sensible signs, are they laid before us, and to be received of us.

  Now there is a twofold remembering of Christ.

  • 1. Historical, that is, the manner or the history of his death, of his being fold, buffeted, mocked, derided, crucified, which is common to the Christian with the Turk or Iew, and for that this Sacrament is not onely appointed.
  • 2. Eucharistical, that is, a remembering of his death, and being thankful for it, as praising, magnifying, worshipping, and blessing God that he dyed for us; this is proper to the Christian, and for this, is this Supper designed, and after this manner the true com∣municant remembers Christs deah, both in its causes and benefits.
    • 1. In its causes, which was sin; mans pride of life made him humble to the death, his looseness made him be bound, his surfeit∣ing made him fast, his prodigality made him poor, and his eating of the forbidden fruit made him dye upon the tree.
    • 2. In its benefits; by his death man is freed
      • 1. From paying the debt he owed to eternal justice, 1 Thes. 1.10.
      • 2. From the bondage of the Ceremonial Law, Gal. 5.1.
      • 3. From the power of sin and Sathan, 1 Iohn 3.5. All which ex∣cite him to thanksgiving.
• 2. Another end was to stir up and quicken all true and saving graces; to cherish faith, to work repentance, to enflame love, to excire hope, and to make the Christians affections heavenly.
• 3. To assist our dull natures; these outward pledges shew of what necessity Christ is to us; by them Christ is evidently (though mystically) crucified before us, that we may admire, love him, and mourn over him.
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• 4. That we might declare our Communion with him. They are only his friends whom he invites to this banquet of wine. Iews Pagans are secluded from this feast, and have no portion of it, while he calls to the Christian to drink and eat abundantly, he being onely his beloved.