To what purpose commaunded the Lord to make his Supper?
Not for an vnbloudy oblation of his body to God the Father, for the sinnes of the quick and dead, or for a Scenical representation of the death of Christ, but for a commemoration of his death: for he saith, Doe this in remembrance of me, that is to say, to bee celebrated, in the assembly of the faithfull, to that enda 1.1, to which purpose also serueth the words of Paule, verse. 26. declaring what that is, In remembrance of me. For as often as ye shall eate of this bread, and drinke of this cup, ye shew the Lords death vntill he come. Ʋerse. 25. That is,* 1.2 call to minde and speake of the whole obe∣dience of Christ, and all his benefits with a thankfull mind, and professe openly, that you doe beleeue and imbrace them. For 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is, (to shew) is not to expresse any thing by si∣militude of fact, or to represent by stage playing gestures, but to declare and shew: Neyther ought it to bee restrained to the Priests alone: for seeing that whiles we are strangers in the bo∣die, we are absent from the Lorda 1.3, we doe by this remember the Lord Iesus, which is in the heauens: which thing hee himselfe commaundeth vs doe, till he commeth to iudgement: (sig∣nifying