The crucified Jesus, or, A full account of the nature, end, design and benefits of the sacrament of the Lords Supper with necessary directions, prayers, praises and meditations to be used by persons who come to the Holy Communion / by Anthony Horneck ...

16. For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.

CHrist rejoyces that the Shadows are at an end, and that the Substance or Antitype is approaching; for as the Passover was a Sign of the Jews Deliverance from Egyptian Bondage, so that Deliverance was a Sha∣dow or Emblem of our Deliverance from Sin here, and our Exemption from all Misery and Trouble in Heaven, which was now to be effected by the Death of Christ. But, O my Soul, how hast thou hunted after Shadows, and left the Substance unregarded? What are the Glo∣ries of this World, but mere Shews? Yet how fond art thou of them, and how strangely hast thou been ena∣moured

with them? These Shadows intimate, that there are more substantial Glories in the Everlasting Mansions; yet these thou passest by, and the other thou art delight∣ed with. See how thou dotest on those painted Coro∣nets, those Butter-flies, those Airy Nothings; while, with the Cock in the Fable, thou tramplest on the Pearl, even on the Pearl of Price; to purchase which, the Spi∣ritual Merchant in the Gospel sold all he had.