it is the very blood shed in the time of His passion. We must not enter here into scholastic disputes, truly scholastic and trifling, about the remains of Christ's blood, and its being taken back, concerning which Baron, should be consulted, etc." Hodos. p. 1202. At the death of Christ the blood was drawn out of the body : the " showing forth" of that death (1 Cor. xi. 26) demands that the bread, after having been blessed, should be eaten in remembrance of the Lord, and that the cup, after having been blessed, should be drunk in like manner in remem brance of the Lord ; 1 Cor. xi. 24, 25. Thomas Bromley has a profound Answer, published in ten treatises, on the different nature of enjoying the body and blood of Christ.
§ 11. The same cause [reason] admirably supports our faith.
The same Bromley, in the Revelation of Paradise, writes thus : " The blood of the eternal covenant is sprinkled in the sanctuary, which was in a peculiar manner performed once for all by the Lord Jesus after PI is ascension, according to Heb. ix. 12, By His own blood He entered once into the sanctuary, after He had obtained eternal redemption. But that is still continued at certain times by our great High Priest, for the purpose of allaying the wrath of God occasioned by sin ; and it is therefore called the blood of sprinkling, on account of its use, which is continued in heaven, and in the consciences of the saints upon the earth." Heb. ix. 14. They who are strong in spiritual judgment may decide such matters as these. Truly, believers, in the whole exercise of their faith, and especially in the sacred Supper, as much enjoy the efficacy of the blood of Jesus Christ, as if they had been established (placed) at the moment at which His blood was shed.
§ 12. This circumstance demands more ample consideration from the lovers of Christ.
We may transfer to the present discussion what Andreas Adamus Hochstetterus, P. M., has written in his Exercitation on the entrance of the High Priest into the Holy of Holies. " We do not doubt that the reader will perceive, from the discussion of an argument so perplexed, and omitted by even great inter preters, how much is still left to our own investigation (search ing of the Scriptures), and will apply to the glory of the Saviour the labour which we have taken in searching out the hidden