The Lord's Supper, a Clerical Symposium baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1881 Excerpt: ... sacrifice was not yet partaken of by being eaten, as the peace-offerings and the Passover were required to be. "The event on Calvary was at the time hidden from the comprehension of men; the offering was dishonoured, without partakers, without public testimony to its dignity and worth." So that if the great sacrifice corresponded to its types, two parts had yet to be accomplished when the Victim surrendered His spirit. His blood had to be presented in the Holiest, and His sacrificial body had to be partaken of. The first of these took place in heaven. There our High Priest entered in once with His own blood, and in a vision vouchsafed to St. John, He is again set forth under sacrificial emblems. He appears as "the Lamb standing as slain;" the Lamb "standing," and so living, and, as priests do, standing to mediate; and yet " slain," so that there is, as it were, a mystery of life and death united in the heaven of heavens. What the reality is which underlies these two things--this " entrance with His own blood," and this standing as "alive" and yet "slain," we know not; only we know that He is a priest now, after the manner of Melchizedec--that as His Priesthood is unchangeable, He must be exercising His priesthood now; so consequently, as it enters into the first conception of priests that they offer something, He also, being a Priest now, must have somewhat now to offer--that this offering must be Himself, not in the way of pain and death, but as alive, and the Head of His Church; so that in the presentation of Himself, He presents His Church with the sufferings, the self-denials, the labours, the obedience, the devotions of each and all its members; and yet withal this He is pleading and mediating through the exhibition of His past death, under the figure...