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alas ! hitherto in vain !) what words in the eucharistic histories ( to which I entirely confine my attention ) denote either sufferings or crucifixion or death . Being disappointed in my search in this line , 1 have inferred , ** That the eacharistic ritual / ' as instituted by Jesus Christ , and used by his primitive and immediate followers , ** was originally appointed as a ritual plan for the true and spiritual worship
of Almighty God according to the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ . "— Consequently , instead of the common definition and hypothesis , I would style the Lord ' s Supper to be " An Institution of Jesus Christ in
Remembrance of the New Covenant , ' * !• e . of the gospel : and this interpretation will be fully confirmed merely by taking the word \ KvoL \ xyr ^ crig as I think it may and ought to be rendered , —to denote " a memorial" or •* a remembrancer * " or " a memorial rite , * ' according to its use in Hebrews x . 3 . Extremely indefinite , ambiguous and unessential [ because it is omitted in two of our eucharistic histories ] , is that noted injunction , " Do this in rememberance of me ; and therefore 1 would translate it into the
following terms : viz . " Do this [ what Christ and his associated friends were then doing ] 4 i according to this my memorial rite . " And what were Christ
and his disciples doing at that time ? Answer— "They were breaking bread , &c . and unitedly worshiping , blessing and praising Almighty God for the original communication of the New Christian Covenant , '—( i . e . ) " for the full and free donation or grant to the world of all the gospel benefits and 7
blessings by Jesus Christ . And was not this a very fair and accurate , though only a compendious specimen and example of the true and pure worship of Almi ghty Qod in a Christian assembly ?—What else is done , or ought to be done , at this time , by the sincere and spiriiual worshipers of Almighty God in their public and Christian assemblies ? If the primitive institution and celebration of the Lord ' s Supper were not , in fact ,
equally or exclusively " the institution ( in the words of the Rev . Joseph Hallett ) , of Christian communion in the public and religious worship of Almighty God / 1 —what other scriptural injunction or authority , from the New Testament , can be adduced - ' *
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to prove the reality and truth of th » latter ? e For want of regarding the eucharistic institution , in this particular point of view , the true use and enc } of it seem to have been , in a great measure , perverted or misrepresented : for the common hypothesis and expositions of the Lord ' s Supper assert it to be an injunction or law for personal and self-commemoration , which in effect , was Christ ' s injunction or
law to levy on Christians the perpetual obligations of personal love , gratitude praise , respect and obedience to himself . But let no one think that our Lord , at that time and in that affair , was claiming for himself any sort or measure of present or posthumous respect , praise , or honour . No , no ; —he was not so ambitious nor
interested as to go so far out of the c / wracteristic line of his duty . While our Lord Christ , was instituting the eucharistic rite , we must consider him as the Mediator between God aud man : and then we shall feel ourselves
obliged to own that the duty or duties he was injoining , were absolutely intended to terminate wholly in God and man ;—and therefore they had not and could not possibly have any reference to his own separate and per * sonal interests , that is , to his
character or attributes ; or , indeed , to any operation , occurrence , or event in the individual history of his own life or death . The particular view of the eucharistic institute , as here exhibited ,
would perhaps be very considerably illustrated and confirmed merely by a full and correct exposition of that eliptic and figurative verse in the 1 st eucharistic record , that is to say , Matt . xxvi . 2 S ; and this must be done by
filling up every elipsis , or defective place , with its proper supplement or . supplements , aud by substituting or inserting a plain , literal and appropriate term iu the room of any one to
that is figurative ; but preparatory the intended correction , two or three remarks are requisite to be made- — 1 st . Contemplating this 28 th verse , in our Greek Testaments , it appears to consist of three distinct clauses ,
which it will be requisite to arrange into as many separate sentences in the English version , 2 ndly . The third or latter clause contains some adjunctive words , which being rendered in our English version very indefinite' /
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572 An Inquiry concerning the Lords ' Supper
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 572, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/40/
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