is really meant in Scripture by eating the flesh of Chrift and drinking his blood, and he gains all the benefit which God intended fhould arife from fuch eating and drinking: he does that which God hath commanded, and he obtains that which God hath promised." "The Let it therefore be our chief care to become WORTHY COMMUNICANTS, and then, whether kneeling or fitting, whether we coincide exactly in our opinions or not, if we coincide in faith and charity, there is every reafon to believe that we shall obtain pardon and fanctification. tree of knowledge," fays Bifhop Taylor, "became a tree of death to us, and the tree of life is now become an apple of contention. The holy fymbols of the Eucharist were intended to be a contesserai tion and an union of Chriftian societies with God and with one another; and the evil-taking of it difunites us from God, and the evil understanding of it divides us from each other." Thefe fad effects will be avoided if we be duly careful to com communicate with true faith and perfect charity, feeking the truth indeed always, but feeking it in love. "We are all alike in fearch of truth," fays the late learned Dr. Rotheram; " let us therefore proceed amicably and charitably in the way: abstaining from all mutual violence, and from all vain and unbecoming confidence in ourfelves, which is generally the ground of it, remembering that all are EQUALLY FREE, and all EQUALLY INTERESTED in the great and momentous purfuit; in the course of which, though all may not tread exactly in the fame steps, though all may not be happy enough to discover and conftantly pursue the most direct path; nay, though all may make frequent deviations from it, yet hoping that we are in the main tending the right way, and that we fhall all meet in the end. "It is far above our power to bring all to embrace the fame opinions; but one thing is in our power-to think charitably of each other: and to this we fhall natu rally rally be inclined, if we have those modest and humble fentiments of ourselves with which Christianity will infpire us. Were we all influenced by this fpirit, we should then differ in opinion without being divided in affection," Unanimity, in the prefent ftate, is fcarcely to be expected. Mutual conceffion should be made, where conceffion is confiftent with the prefervation of effentials. The Eucharift is an effential; because to it are annexed the prefent benefits of GRACE and PARDON. It cannot be difpenfed with; it must not be difhonoured. It is one grand means of diminishing wickedness; and let all good men, however divided in modes of worfhip, UNITE in proclaiming to the world, that wickedness is the difgrace and mifery of man, and religion his perfection and glory. APPENDIX. ? APPENDIX. No. I. The Inftitution of this Sacrament by Christ as recorded by St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. Paul. MATT. XXVI. MAKK, XIV. LUKE, XXII. I COR. xi. THE HE night in which the Lord Jesus was betrayed, as they were eating, or did eat, Jefus took bread, and giving thanks, bleffed it, and brake it, and gave it unto his difciples, and faid, " Take, eat, this is my body, which is given and broken for you: Do this in remembrance of me.” After fupper likewise, having taken the cup, and given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, "Drink ye all of this, for this cup "is my blood of the new covenant, the "new covenant in my blood, which is "fhed for you, for many, for the remif |