The consecration of the eucharist : a study of the prayer of consecration in the communion office from the point of view of the alterations and amendments established therein by the revisers of 1789

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viii INTRODUCTIONquostion hieli lios aut of our argument is o id a toliave sesen in disput for man centuries t have been instrumenta in maintaining the reat schism etween astand est anxio have b00n th subjectis divers opposingvlows in different paris of those main divisions. It is admitted by thos who rogard the Hol Eueharistas the divinely appotnted memorial of tho aurifice of thodeati, o Christ that in serpetua ting this memorial the Churtili is bound to arry ut the illis iis Divino Founderin tho institutionis it But apari rom ther differenues in rogari to the illis Christ in his matter, thor is the particula question hethor tho Churuli is to arry out that will by tho appotiato us o Br0ad and in in imitationo the et o Christ illi or illi ut oriis and ii illi

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a I,0llevor his might se a suffieient explanation of the et pserformed, and of the reason of the et performed in thelas Supper his eatin and drini in of the elements ouldbe resolvet into an et o obediene to a command and memory, refreshed by renewed Obedience, ould strongilien

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that uel memorial hould bo made to God, ould se a separate question; ut tho ines of the momoria for tho sotting orth of the Sacrifieo ould e a prope and omplet in the case of presentation to the ather, as in theca se of presentation to the discipies Hene the Onnectionbelmeen the elements of reai and in and the Bod and Blood o Christ in His actionis the Supper, Would SuggeStthe connectio of the offering of tho ne illi the offering

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INTRODUCTION iseem equali Obvious that this aurificia actioni ou Lord uould involve the fisering both of the elemonis, and of that whiel the wer appotii ted o represent of the Broad and Wines a reprosonting the Bod ani Blood, of th Bod and Blood a represented by the Broad and Wine. ut insueti more the significanue of the actioni Christ in the Suppor, whiel aetioni commandet to b imitate. O reonactest; sueti Wouldi the significa ne of that hiet was alter Ward silon in the Chureli in obediendo O His omniand. am a froni presumin to describe the prostes of themiud of tho Chureli in iis fultilling of the command of

Clirist in the continuod observarie of themoly ueharisi: but it seem to se matter of aut that the universa Chii relifroin the arties times of iis nown histor has rogarded that Service asin aurifico as a Saerifice of the reatures fBroad aud ine, both in thei material haracter ani in thei representative character a appotnted an empoWored

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ception, O sonae What oubiful applieation the se of tho ni iis of Institution is accounfed Sumulent to confer potithe olement that character hiuli qualisios them to se received by the ather a the memorial hiel th Son has commandest o b made efore Him of th on oblation ofHimself nue offerod. The oriis of Institution Originalty used by Him to confer pon the materia creatures of Brendand in the ea pauit of representin the-Bod and Blood offeron to tho ather, have bymis appotiatinent the fame offout in the samo se of thom by the Chureli. Tho Brundanil in Dot ea sinito sexist in ei ther instanue, ouom by the dosignation of thos Worus o Institution in a truo ut

the offering the made 'hiel by the Same command was the purpos o memorial O that Already consummated nee for ali, ut fore ver presented an pleade both in H0aven

Thus it may app0a that the Christia Chureia, in common illi iis orerunt10rs of the Patriarcha and Mosai Dispensations has neve laoked the charaoteristic o Saurifico in iis orshi 9 nor has the Christia Sacrifice, more hanei ther th Patriarcha or Mosai Sacrifieos, fallen to b amateria Sacrifieo. The differserico is that thematoria Saurificem Christian Orshi has besen ad tho medium and

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