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Jtfxyfes on Matthew xxvi . 28 ; or , the Eucharistic KitvaL 4 £ f
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affirming what it first pretends to dmy , that is to say , the * plain and literal meaning of the words body and blood . In this place , the preceding exposition might he farther ill us * tmtcd with some additional remarks ';
for—1 st . As the word blood in the passage now considered , is evidently a mere metaphor , and may be advantageously exchanged for its corresponding reality , the word cup or wine , or liquor , or liquid ; so probably the same term ought to he taken , in a figurative
sense wherever it occurs in all the eucharistic hisAor > ieb , as in Mark xiv . 24 , in Luke xxii . 20 , and in 1 . Cor- xi . 25 . —Admitting this inference to be . just , it will induce very considerable alterations in the general expositions of the Christian eucharist ; for
the terms body and blood , hitherto regarded as the object or end of our Lord ' s rite , must hence , forth be considered only as <* the figurative appellations of t ^ ruys that may or rather ought to be substituted for diem , ( i . e . ) of
the elementary or symbolical broad and wine , which are the ' natural means or real instruments , and not the objects of ourTirual comid em orations * When the body and blood mentioned in the histories of the Load ' s supper , afo
known to be merely metaphorical terms , who will absurdly attempt or pretend to commemorate mere metaphors or figures ? In fact , the com memorable object , appointed by the eucharistic law , was something different from the real body and blood of Christ ; it was the gospel or Almighty God ' s new covenant of' remissions and recowm Pence * : and this rcligioUfi com-
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memoration , considered in its principles , acts , and ulterior object , is the very essence , sum and substance of the Christian' worship of Almighty God . The eucbaristic institution then was
originally enacted and exemplified by Jesus Christ and his apostles , a « a standing : institution or Jaw for the religious communion of Christians in the public , pure , true and spiritual worship of Almighty God . throughout all ages and nations of the Christian name . Let it be added in the
* 2 nd . place , that the categoric sentence , ( " T&s ci / p is my blood * of the new covenant , ") in Matthew xxvi . 128 , and in Mark xiv . 24 , hath exactly the same import or meaning as the similar categoric sentence ( 4 C This cup is the new covenant in my blood" ) in Luke xxii . 2 O , and in 1 . Cor . xi / 25 ; for of the two sentences , each hath a different consequent , while both of them have the same
noun , viz . cupy for their common antecedent : and hence the obvious and necessary deduction is , — that *—* ' the new covenant in my blood , " in "the latter sentence , is precisely . of the same signification as Ci my blood of the newjeovenant , " is in the . former ; for in morals and theology , as well m
mathematics and geometry , when two or more things , or consequents , &c . are equal to one or the syinr common , untecedent or multiple;—those two things , or consequents , &c . are neccssu * rily equal among themselves or to each other .
If the translators and expositors of the eucharistrc histories would , consistently and throughout tb ^ , ir . expositions , take the terms body and blood , as they ought to do .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 497, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/41/
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