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CHAP. XVII. The necessity of the Lord's Supper for Salvation pro∣ved from St. Joh. VI.
[§ I] It is probable that our Saviour spoke these words with relation to the Sacrament which he was to institute. §. I. It is probable that St. John also understood and designed them so. §. II. Being so understood they agree very well with the account of the design of this Sacrament already given. §. III. The meaning of the signs expected from Prophets. §. IV Manna the sign of Moses, which our Saviour designed to imitate in giving the Bread here spoken of. §. V. An account from the Hellenistical Philosophy of those times how the Bread given by our Saviour is called the true Bread. §. VI, VII. Mystical Manna understood by Philo of the ΛΘΓΟΣ. §. VIII. The Bread given by our Saviour bodily as well as Mystical. §. IX. The way of reasoning in the New Testament from Mystical Ex∣positions of the Old. §. X. The Prudence of this way of rea∣soning. §. XI. The course this way of reasoning obliged them to in proving the Christian Sacraments. §. XII, XIII. The Ideal Manna communicated to us by the Eucharistical Bread. §. XIV. The consequent danger of wanting this Eucharistical Bread. §. XV. The Usefulness of the method here proposed for understanding this, and many like, places in the New Testament. Submission to Superiors. §. XVI.
AND though I know that the Eucharist was not yet instituted when our Saviour had that Mystical dis∣course in St. John VI. yet withal I cannot but think that our Saviour intended even then to warn them of the necessity of a Corporal as well as Spiritual Ʋnion with himself, and to give them such an account of it, as, though they did not understand it at present, yet they should when they should be fitted