...were sent to invite sinners to partake of "life." But since the only way of obtaining life was by " eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man," their preaching must have been an echo of those words. When, therefore, they preached, saying, "Be...

...righteousness, sanctification, and redemption." 2. Faith is represented, John vi. 53, as the act of" eating the flesh, and drinking the blood of the Son of man." Happy they, who hunger and thirst after righteousness; happy they, who feed upon the true bread which...

...the Lord's Suffer. IN the present discussion, I think it very material, that the passages respecting eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, in the sixth chapter of St. John, should be generally understood (as they were certainly meant) to...

...they only resembled it— ua-Trsp nvpos — " like as of " fire." And if such expressions as — " eating the " flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man" — and " baptizing with the Holy Ghost and with " fire"— be justly understood as figurative of spiritual...

...grandeur, when the sublimer mysteries of the gospel began to be unfolded, and the necessity inculcated of eating the flesh, and drinking the blood, of the Son of Man, the people were offended, and even of the professed disciples of our Lord, many walked no more with...

...has made some passages in the vith chapter of St John's Gospel, and especially the command of (c) " eating the flesh, and drinking the blood of the Son of man," a matter of so much perplexity, is the want of attending to the occasion of his discourse, and the...

...the doctrines contained in it. He particularly referred to the ordinance of the LORD'S Supper, — ' Eating the flesh, and drinking the blood of the SON OF MAN.' " A Letter dated May 6th has been subsequently received, detailing the further satisfactory progress...

...explanation of these words, the first thing to be especially attended to, is the meaning of the phrase of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man. And here I shall, 1st, show what these words do not signify ; 2dly, what they really do signify. 1st, then,...

...purpose, then, in the present discourse, is to shew, . I. The Doctrine contained under the expression of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man. II. The great Importance assigned to this Doctrine by our Lord. And O, my Brethren, may the Holy Spirit...

...of the thing represented by our eating of that bread, and drinking of that cup, that it is only by eating the flesh, and drinking the blood, of the Son of man, who is the second Adam, the Author and Giver of a new and better life to us, by shedding his blood...