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you from the foundation of the world. You survey an inheritance
incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth
not away not with the feelings of a Balaam who beheld
from the high places of Baal the good tents of Jacob
and the tabernacles of Israel in which he had neither
part nor lot not with the emotions of a Moses who
from Pisgah viewed the land flowing with milk &
honey into which he must not enter but with
the confidence and composure of an Abraham to
whom God said "Lift up now thine eyes and look
from the place where thou art northward and Southward
and eastward and westward: Arise walk through
the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it for
I will give it unto thee;" but with the rapture of a
Stephen who expiring exclaimed: " Behold I see the heavens
opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand
of God." That ye Christians may through grace be
made partakers of the same divine consolation
We administer unto you and partake with you the
commanded memorial of the sufferings and death
of the Redeemer of mankind.
"The Lord in the same night in which he
was betrayed tood bread and when he had given
thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my body
which is broken for you this do in remembrance
of me.
How perfully emphatical every word is! The
bread of nature in order to become the aliment of
the