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In drinking together my Christian friends from this
cup we joyfully acquiese in the new and better and well
ordered covenant ordained by angels in the hand of a
mediator and established upon better promises a
covenant which makes provision not only for human
infirmity but for the deepest and most malignant guilt
and which affords not merely a temporary relief but confers
an unchangeable and everlasting security. This is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days saith the Lord I will put my laws into their
mind and write them in their hearts I will be to
them a God and they shall be to me a people and
they shall not teach every man his neighbour and
every man his brother saying know the Lord for
all shall know me from the least to the greatest.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and
their sins and their iniquities will I remember no
more. And what is the seal fo this better covenant?
This before you. This sup says the Saviours is the
new testament in my blood The wine in the cup
is a symbolical representation of my blood shed for
the comission of sin. Ye know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things as silver and gold
but with the pricious blood of Chirst as a Lamb
without blemish and without spot slain from the
foundation of the world and which cleanseth us from
all sin.
In celebrating this holy ordinance we are not only
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