Considerations On the Nature And Efficacy of the Lords Supper
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All the skill of cunning artizans and mechanics cannot put a principle of life into a statue of their own making. Neither are we able to inclose in words and letters, the life, soul, and essence of any spiritual truths, and, as it were, to incorporate it in them. " Some philosophers have determined that otftrti is not ^i^'ecurcv : virtue cannot be taught by any cer- tain rules or precepts. Men and books may pro- pound some directions to us, that may set us in such a way of life and practice, as... in which we shall at last find it within ourselves, and be experimentally acquainted with it ; but they cannot teach it us like a mechanic art or trade. No surely, there is a spi- rit in man ; and the inspiration of the Almighty |;iveth this understanding. But we shall not meet rUM LOKD's 3UPPBB. 9$! with this spirit anywhere but in the way of obedi- ence : the knowledge of Christy and the keeping of his commandnoents, must always go together, and be mutual causes of one another. '* Again, he says : " The first Adam, as the Scrip- ture tells us, brought in a real defilement, which, like a noisome hprosy hath overspread all mankind ^ and, therefore, the second Adam must really con- vey such an immortal seed of grace into the hearts of true believers, as may prevail still more and more in them, till it have at last quite wrought out that poison of the serpent.
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