Pierre Allix on the Lord’s Supper as a seal of the new covenant

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... THE greatest Honour the Old Covenant did confer upon the Jews, was this, That the MESSIAS should be born of their Blood; but the Advantage of the New, is, That the MESSIAS partaking of Flesh and Blood with the rest of Mankind, has given his own Blood to raise them to the Glory of Adoption, who shall believe in Him. O how happy is the People, whose God is the Lord! And what does this Expression, to be the God of any one, import, but this, viz. To be his Great and Sovereign Benefactor? Of old He was the GOD of Abraham, but not of Loth, and his Posterity; Of Isaac, but not of Ismael and his Off-spring; Of Jacob, but not of Esau and the Edomites. Now, He is the GOD of all the Earth. But he has not made this Covenant with all the Nations of the World, save only by virtue and on the Sole Account of the Blood of Christ.

And can we with any attention, reflect on this Truth, represented to us in the Holy Eucharist, without feeling a Joy unspeakable and full of Glory? GOD had promised to enter into such a Covenant, as this; and Jeremy describes it in the 31. Chap. of his Prophecies; Yet the Old lasted till John the Baptist, and so long the Ceremonies of it were in use. But then comes Christ, and instead of continuing the Celebration of the Old Covenant, which was made in the Blood of the Paschal Lamb, He abrogates it, and in its room substitutes the New Covenant, made in his own Blood. Do this (says He) in remembrance of me. Not That which was done before, but This: For this Cup is the New Testament in my Blood, which is shed for the Remission of your Sins. ...

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