...purpose, then, in the present discourse, is to shew, I. The Doctrine contained under the expression of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man. II. The great Importance assigned to this Doctrine by our Lord. And O, my Brethren, may the Holy Spirit...

...Lord's Supper. IN the present discussion, I think it very material, that the passages respecting the eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, in the sixth chapter of St. John, should be generally understood (as they were in my opinion certainly...

...irlva, &c., employed of Him. But all these occur in reference to Christ. The general idea of tasting, eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man, eating the true bread and never hungering, is familiar to the language of the New Testament. I am thus...

...light nor heat, neither a vine nor a shepherd. In like manner, there is a reality in the Christian's eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, although the sacramental bread and wine be literally neither flesh nor blood. " It is the spirit that...

...they all pronounce upon the strength of it, that his antecedent language, respecting the necessity of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, ought to be interpreted, not literally and carnally, but figuratively and spiritually .* * Tertull....

...offered to us in the gospel, with particular application to the man himself, in scripture, called, An eating the flesh, and drinking the blood of the Son of man. And yet, till this difficulty be surmounted, in greater or lesser measure, he can never be said to believe...

...unto you. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." By eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man is meant, partaking by faith of the benefit of his sacrifice, in order to our present pardon, and future...

...for you;' but few Protestant Christians, at least in our country, speak, with the same freedom, of' eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man,' and yet Christ expressly says, 'except ye do this, ye have no life in you.' Protestants, moreover, would...

...it, we have acted upon it. We shall, in discoursing on this passage, first consider what is meant by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man. That it had no reference to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, we are warranted in concluding, because...

...grandeur ; when the sublimer mysteries of the gospel began to be unfolded, and the necessity inculcated of eating the flesh, and drinking the blood, of the Son of Man, the people were offended ; and even of the professed disciples of our Lord, "many walked no more with...