...Austin and the council of Milevis " for the necessity of baptizing infants, from the necessity of their eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man. There is great dispute among the Romish doctors about the sense of St. Austin and this Pope Innocent...

...exposition of the general import of this discourse, for any now to insist upon a literal interpretation, of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man, is to be more blind than the unbelieving Jews ; for it is not probable that any of them were so stupid...

...forgiveness of sins, the sacred writer, following the intense language of the Savior with respect to eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, tells us, " They washed their robes, and made them white in his blood," expressing the perfect fellowship...

...Lord's Supper. We well know that many eat of that bread and drink of that cup, without ever at all eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man. Our Lord Himself reproves so vain a superstition,—even if the voice of conscience itself did not...

...but thereby signify the habit of our lives. And in John vi., where our Saviour speaks so strongly of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, he concludes (v. 63) by saying, " It is the Spirit that quickeneth : the words that I speak unto you,...

...of the general import of this discourse, for any now to ! insist upon a literal interpretation, of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man, u to be more blind than the unbelieving Jews : for it U not probable that any of them were so stupid...

...incapable of profiting by it. And who are they who are incapable of profiting by it ? Who are they who, in eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, eat and drink their own condemnation ? Not surely all those who are erroneous in religious opinions,...

...world, and their union in Christ their Lord, by their partaking of the same bread.3 Thus, too, their eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man is symbolized. As the body is nourished by bread, so the life of God in the soul — implanted in the...

...intellect, and his very style is corpulent and greasy. The topic which in this volume he discusses, is " Eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man," — a topic which he handles in a shockingly familiar manner. The symbolic character of our Saviour's...

...profiting by it. " And who are they that are incapable of profiting by it ? IPho are they that, in eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, eat and drink their own condemnation ? Not, surely, all ^ those who are erroneous in religious opinions,...