That the Love-feaſt is here intended, which ordinarily preceded the| Lord's Supper ; the reaſon they give, is, Becauſe the abuſes here | mentioned, viz. not ſtaying one for another till the whole Church were met, one eating plentifully, another ſparingly, ſome being hungry whiles others had ate and drank enough, could not be ar the Lord's Supper, where the Miniſter beginneth not tillthe whole Church be aflembled, and where there 1s no ſuch liberaleating and driking. To this purpoſe we are cold, That by an ancient cu- ſom in Greece ( within which Corinth was ) the rich men offered ſome things to their Idols (which afcer thar ation the poor had for their relief) and made Feaſts in the Idols Temples, of which all had a liberty to ear, That the Chriſtians imitated this praCtice of theirs,and the rich amongſt them upon the Lords Days made Feaſts, atwhich both poor and rich Chriſtians might be, and the poor car. ried away what was Jefr. But this Church growing corrupt every way,and having got Tcachers to thzir humours, they at theſe Feaſts negleed the puor, inviring only the rich to them, and alſo ex- ceeding in their proviſion for their rich Gueſts. Theſe Feaſts were called Feaſts of Love, or Love-feaſts, either becauſe, 1, Loveto God was that which (pretendedly art leaſt) cauſed them. 2. Or be- cauſe they were repreſentations of our Lord's Jaſt Supper, in which befirſt ace che Paſchal Lamb, thzn inſtitured whar we call the Lord's Supper ; or becauſe they immediately preceded or followed the adminiſtration of the Lord's Supper, from whence the Love-
- _ /-} b:iog immediately before cr afcer it, had alſo the ſame name. he But if we allow this, we muſt make the Love-feaits alſo Chriſt's GG; Inſtitution, and inſtitured in remembrance of him, neither of}
which can be proved. The meaning muſt be, you cannot rightly communicate at the Lord's Table, when immediately before or | after that Table ar your Love-feaft, you are guilty of ſuch diſorder-, ly aQions. In the mean time ,only whar Chriſt inſtituted for remem. | brance ofhis Death, is what the Apoſtle calls, The Lord's Supper. |
21 For in cating, every one taketh before other his own ſupper q, and one is hungry 7, and another is irunken £5,
9 There was at this time in moſt of the Chriſtian Church a Jew. | bÞ Party, viz. ſuch as were converted from Judaiſm to Chriſtiani- ! y,and had a tang of the old Cask,being too tenacious of ſome Jew. Ld Rites, Theſe looked upon the Lord's Supper as an appurtenance| the Paſſeover, immediately after which we know that Chriſt | it firſt inſtituted his Supper. As therefore Chriſt did eat the Paſe,
| Supper before the Lord's Supper ; ſo they inimiration of him, | wugh they forbare the Paſchal Lam Supp« Kit OWn to precede the Lord's Supper, and having provided itar ome, would bring it to the place where the Church was to meer,
50 thi and their poor Brethren contributing nothing to the charge of | ol ut Supper, they would not ſtay for them, bur took this their a "n Supper : So it came to paſs, that the poor Chriſtians were
gry, had none or very little ſhare in their Feaſt, 5s whilesothers richer part ofthe Church, had too much ; for I rake our Tran- ation of * i word ys8%e tobe very bard and uncharitable. Hard, Xauſe the word doth not neceſlarily ſo ſignifie, or drinking be- md what is ſtriftly neceſſary, and our Tranflators themſelves, 2.10. render it wel drunk. Uncharitable, becauſe it certainly ut be very uncharitably preſumed of this Church of Corinth, that ſhould ſuffer perſons, at that time aQually drunk, to come to Lord's Table.
22 What, have ye not houſes to eat and to drink
| juſtly accounted an abuſe of the King himſclf, whoſe Seal and
b, yet would have a Supperof ly underſtands what Chriſt is,
Church, and how, and by whom? Whether good Chriſtians may
you : this do in {| remembrance of me y. Y Theſe words we alſo met with, Luke 22. 19, 20. and in the other Evangeliſts narration of the Inſticution of the Supper. (See the Explication of them in the Notes on thoſe Texts.) 25 After the ſame manner alſo he rok the cup when he had ſupped, ſaying, This cup is the new Teſtament in my blood : this do ye, as oft as you drink it, in re- membrance of me. 26 Foras ofc as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, || ye do ſhew the Lords death * till ye come =.
a - A li Or, hew z From hence it appears, that the Bread and wine is not (as P.:-
O.
piſts ſay) tranſubſtantiated or turned into the very ſubſtance, of the * Joh. 14,
tlejh and blond of Chriſt, when che Communicanrs eat it and drink 3.
it, Iris (till the fame Bread and Cupir was. The end of che In. Afts x1” ſtiturion is bunt to commemorate Chriſts Death, and upon that ac-
count the waiting upon God in this Ordinance, will be a ſtanding
duty incumbent upon Chrittians, until Chriſt ſhall come ro Judg-
ment. Some think, jh-w ye, is a betrer Tranſlation of the Verb
than (as we rranſlate ir ) ze do jhew ; wherefore ſo behave your ſelves
at this Ordinance, as thoſe who know whar they have to doin
it, that 1s, to ſhew forth the Death of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt.
27 * Wherefore whoſoever ſhall eat this bread, and*Num. + drink 12s cup of the Lord unworthily a, ſhall be guilty 19: 13- of the body and blood of the Lord 5, ge wh
Divines agree, that theunworthinels here ſpoken of, reſpeð ''27 'T - not the perſon of the Receiver ſo much as the manner of the Re. ; ceiving; in whichſenſe, a perſon that is worthy, may receive this - Ordinance unworthily : *tis variouſly expounded, without due * ** Religion and Reverence, without Faith and Love, without propoſing a right End inthe AGion, under rhe guilr of any known fin nor re. pented of, &c. 6 ſhall incur the guilr of the prophanation of this ſacred Inſtitution ; for an abuſe offered to a ſign, reacherh ro that of which it isa ſign. Astheabuſe of a King's Seal, or Pi&ure,is
PiQure it is. Some carry it higher, he ſhall be puniſhed, as if he had crucified Chri'ſt,the profanation of Chrifts Ordinance refleQing upon Chriſt himlelf.
28 But * let a man examine himſelf, and fo let him. _ Co eat of that bread, and drink of that cup c. :