Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN.103are Christ's Body and His members, it is yourown mystery which is placed on the Lord's table ;it is your own mystery which you receive. It isto what you are that you reply amen, and by replyingsubscribe. For you are told, ' the Body r ofChrist,' and you reply, amen. Be a member of theBody of Christ, and let your amen be true. Why,then, in bread ? Let us bring here nothing of ourown, but listen to the Apostle himself again andagain, for in speaking of that sacrament he says,' We that are many are one bread, one body.'Understand and rejoice. Here is unity, verity,piety, charity. One bread. Who is that onebread ? We being many are one bread. Eemem-ber that the bread is not made of one, but ofmany grains. When you were exorcised, it wasas if you were ground ; when baptised, as if youwere kneaded together with water; when youreceived the fire of the Holy Ghost, it was yourbaking. Be what you see, and receive what youare. This the Apostle said of the bread. Ofthe chalice what we should understand is clearenough even unsaid. For as to make the visiblespecies of bread many grains are kneaded withwater into one, as if that were taking place whichHoly Scripture records of the faithful, ' they hadone mind and one heart in God,' so also in thecase of the wine. Many grapes hang on thebunch, but their juice is poured together intoone. So too Christ the Lord signified us; willed