CHAP. II. Of the Reason of the Institution of this most holy Sacrament.

OUr Saviour, being about to depart out of this World to go to the Father, instituted this Sacrament, in which he, as it were, pour'd out the Riches of his Divine Love towards men, making a memorial of his Miracles; and he commanded us at his taking the Supper to reverence his Memory, and shew forth his Death, until he should come to judge the World: And he would have this Sacrament to be taken, as a Spiritual Food for the Soul, whereby they that live after Christ might be nourished and strengthned, who said, He that Eateth me shall have life through me; and as an Antidote, by which we are freed from our daily Trespasses, and preserved from deadly sins: Besides he would have it to be a pledge of our suture Glory, and perpetual Folicity; and by consequence a Symbol of that one Body, of which he is the Head, and to which we are bound as most strict members, by the Bonds of Faith, Hope, and Charity; that we might all jointly say, Neither were there any Divisions amongst us.