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- i Thus beia& 4 eted ; I deterndued to look at tbe authority by which this ordinance , is recoiBimended for the ChristAan ' s observation . Ou turning to Matt . -Kxyiw 1 fi ^ tutd it rectorded ^ that
oa the ftrs £ day of tbe mast of unleavened bread , f hey made ready the pass-* xeer : > ver > 4 B : u And as : they ¦ were eating , Jesus took breadf and blessed , and brake , and gave to his disciples , and said , Take eat , this is my body /'
& 7 : " A nd be took the cup , aud gave thanks , and gave to then ? , saying , Brink ye all of ft" m : ^ For this is my blood of the new covenant , which is shed for many for the remission of sins . ' 2 ft : < But I say - unto you , I
will not drink henceforth of the fruit of the vine , until I drink it new with yt > u in i » y 'Fathers kingdom /' n Whe language of the xivth ofMark is not quite so full , but is to the same purport with that of Matthew , and flxwn either of them it would be diffi *
cult , without doing violence to the historian ' s language , to fiud an iesti * tation of an ordinance . Matthew and Mark , as well as J ^ uk * , all of them record , that on the night the passover must be killed Jesus and . his twelve
apostles , when the passover was ready , partook of it ; and the whole of the facts they record , are facts connected with the Jewish passover institution 4 nor does it appear to me possible , from
any thing recorded by Matthew or Mark , lor a moment to suppose that Jeans had any intention of instituting any ordinance for the perpetual observation of the church of God .
Luke ' s history confirms this fact , that djesufe was partaking with his < discipies of the passover meal . For he says , rodi . 7 , 4 < Then o « rne tti € day of unleavened bread , when the passoyer TOUfct he killed / ' IS : « And they inade ready the passover . " 14 : * A « d when'the hour was cot » e . he « at 4 owii ,
* nd fck twelve anodes frith hiwi . " 1 ©¦ : " And lie isaid unrto theny with desire I have Sti&ivedto eat tfiis pnraover witli y < mv before I ^ u # &r . * 6 t " Por I say unto' you , I will not any feme eat thareof tttttil it be fulfilled
in tfaekifi ^ dowi ^ f God , 17 : ^ And be took the cup , aft ^ l gnv « thanks , and Haiti ; Tufce this , &&d divide it among -9 ^« Hywc « B . * ' ' -v . ' .. is ^^ i ^; Pwr- - i ** y ^ nttto yoii , I ^ ill ;> Mt drirtk -of the ft « 0 t « df « be W ^ until J «^ kingdom > ttf 43 o 4 shall come . ' Evidently , so fer "it
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1 , leoat belongs to the ofaier « atiaa of tbe Jewish ; passover , and to notfeing e | se , ai * d agrees in substance with Ms ^ tthJew and Mark . Luke goes on to » ay » xxii . li 9 t : ;«*\ And lie toiife ^ bread ^ iaild ga ^ e thanks , and brake , and gave to tiiem , saying , Tim is my body which is given for you : ; thfe / do in ^ r « lieiriv brance of me . 2 O : " Likewise also the
cup after supper , say ing , This c up is the new covenant in iny blbott , ' which is ahed for you . ! ' -: ' -i ¦ ¦ ¦ ' , ' ¦ - . r . Ur-. xu ¦ /> ¦ ¦ . y ^ -a - . i The only difference between Luke and the two other hjstoriati . s in Ihe import of their words , is , Ww > io in remembrance of me : but these words cab ha \ e no farther force than on those
to whom the direction is ^ iven ^ arid that was to the apostles alone . Sup ^ posing then these words to convey a precept , ^ was a precept from Jesue to his apostles , that whensoever they eat the passover , or if we must extend the words to their utmost limits ,
whensoever ye , my apbstles , assemble at a feast or meal , observe my planner , and act in remembrance of me at such meal , as I , the master of the feast , have now acted with you at this passover meal . . Taking' the words in this ^ sense , they agree with the whole of the preceding ,
as vrell as the following context . Freely translating the passage ^ it migh t tie thus rendered : Thus is mv body delivereditp in your behal f ; in like manner each of you act in remembrance ^ or commemoration , of me . This language agrees with the language John declares , Jesus to have '¦¦ used at this
time . John xiii . 34 : MA new commandment I ^ give unto you , that ye Jove one another /* xv . 12 : ** This is my commandment , that ye love ope another , as I have ioved you *' 13 : ^ Greater love bath no man than this ,
tih&t a man Jay down his life for bis friood * . " * 14 : *' . Ye are iay friends if ye do whatsoever I command you . " JLwke ^ in tbe remainder of the conversation that he records as passing at this tune , unites his testimony to that of John , that Jewis on tfii& occasion ,
not only by precept , but by example , inculcated on his digcipies the mo » t earnest desire of each m them to vie ^ witti eacii oriiher in doing ifee mxfek tamtblHig wits of kindness towards ^ adh « 4 ber , from Ike recolkcUon that
Jesus ihad * Aom love to them , volun-^ at « y ^ ubmiUod to « ham ^ iadigmiy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/16/
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