Graphautarkeia, or, The Scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated wherein whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship or manners is reduced to its proper head, weighty cases resolved, truths confirmed, difficult texts illustrated and explained by others more plain.

4thly, Breaking of bread, or the Lords Supper.

The Passover instituted: and all the directions about it, Exod. 12.

The people not prepared, yet did eat: Hezekiah prayed for them, 2 Chr. 30. 18, 19.

As they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to his disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is my body: and he took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it, for this is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins: but he said unto them, I will not drink it henceforth, &c. and when they had sung, &c. Matth. 26. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

They all drank of the cup, Mark 14. 23.

He sate down, and the twelve Apostles with him, &c. He took the cup and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among your selves, &c. And he took bread and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you, this do in remembrance of me. Likewise al∣so the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new Testament in my blood, which is shed for you, Luke 22. 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

When Judas had received the sop at supper, he went immediately out, John 13. 26, 30.

And they continued stedfastly, &c. in breaking of bread, Acts 2. 42.

Upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread, &c. Paul preached to them, &c. in the upper chamber where they were gathered together, &c. When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, &c. Acts 20. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, &c. let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, &c. but with the unleavened bread of since∣rity, 1 Cor. 5. 7, 8.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the comunion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? for we being many, are one bread and one body: for we are all par∣takers of that one bread, &c. ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils: ye cannot, &c. 1 Cor. 10. 16, 17, 21, 22.

When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lords supper (or, ye cannot eat): for in eating, every one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken: what, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the Church of God, and shame them that have not (or, are poor)? for I have received of the Lord that which also I de∣livered

unto you, that the the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in (or, for a) remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is thenew Testament in my blood, this do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remem∣brance of me: for as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew (or, shew ye) the Lords death till he come: wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, &c. he who eateth, &c. unworthily, eateth and drink∣eth damnation to himself, not discerning the Lords body, &c. When ye come to∣gether to eat, tarry one for another: and if any man hunger, let him eat at home, 1 Cor. 11. 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 33, 34.