NECESSITY AND ADVANTAGE OF Frequent Communion : Designed to Revive Primitive Piety. BY WILLIAM BEVERIDGE, D. D. LONDON: Printed for R. Smith at Exeter-Change in the Strand. 1708. For as often as ye eat this Bread, and drink this Cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. THE HE Lord's death here spoken of, is the death of the Lord, the almighty and eternal Son of God; that death which he suffered in the nature, and in the stead of mankind in general, and particularly of us who are here present; that death, whereby he expiated our sins, and made complete satisfaction to the divine truth and justice for them: that death, whereby he appeased the wrath which He that made us had justly conceived against us, and hath reconciled Him again unto us: that death whereby he delivered us from the slavery of sin and Satan, and asserted us into the glorious liberty of the sons of God: that death, whereby he redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made himself a curse for us that death, whereby he purchased for us both pardon, and peace, and mercy, and grace, and power to eschew evil and do good, and all the blessings we can ever have or desire, either in this world or the next: that death, by virtue whereof he entered into heaven, now to appear in the presence of God for us, and therefore is able to save to the utmost them come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them, Heb. vii. 25. This is that Lord's death, which the Apostle here saith we shew, as often as we eat the bread and drink the cup he speaks of in the verses before my text, where he saith, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks he brake it, and said, take, eat, this is my body which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when |