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brance of me, ' it will amount to no more than this, that being the last time that Christ did eat with his disciples; He desired them, that in their eating and drinking they might have regard to Him, and by the remembering of that opportunity, be the more stirred up to follow Him diligently through suflFerings and death," etc. A further quotation from Barclay's Apology will make this more . clear. "Now this act was no singular thing, neither any solemn institution of a gospel ordinance; because... it was a constant custom among the Jews, as Paulus Riccius observes at length in his Celestial Agriculture, that when they did eat the passover, the master of the family did take bread, and bless it, and breaking it, gave of it to the rest; and likewise taking wine, did the same; so that there can nothing further appear in this, than that Jesus Christ, who fulfilled all righteousness, and also observed the Jewish feasts and customs, used this also among his disciples only, that as, in most other things He labored to draw their minds to a further thing, so in the use of this He takes occasion to put them in mind of his death and suflFerings, which were shortly to be; which He did the oftener inculcate unto them, for that they were averse from believing it." Our Saviour said: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me." (Rev.
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