"  We  do  indeed  own  that  Christ  is  really  present  in  the
Sacrament  to  all  worthy  receivers,  and  in  our  Communion  Ser-
vice we  pray  to  God  to  grant  that  we  may  eat  the  Flesh  of  His
dear  Son  and  drink  His  Blood,  &c.  All  this  we  own,  and  it  is
very  necessary  we  should."  Sermon  on  Transubsiantiation,  vol.  vii.
Leslie.
"  Nor  can  the  shewbread  in  the  temple  be  called  the  bread
of  our  God  so  properly,  so  strictly,  so  eminently,  as  the  Bread
in  the  Holy  Sacrament,  which  is  the  Body  of  Christ ....  And
does  not  then  holiness  and  honour  belong  as  much,  at  least,  to
the  Evangelical  Priesthood,  who  offer  this  Bread  of  our  God,
as  the  priests  under  the  Law  who  set  the  shewbread  upon  the
holy  table  in  the  temple?  And  is  not  the  one  as  properly  the

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office  of  a  priest  as  the  other?"   Regale  and  Pontificate.     Woiks,
vol.  i.  p.  665.
Brett.
"  We  may  ask  again,  if  it  be  not  convenient,  nay  necessary,
that  all  those  who  partake  of  this  holy  Sacrament  should  under-
stand and  know  what  it  is  they  do?  Ought  they  not  to  be
instructed  in  the  nature  and  design  of  it,  lest  they  eat  and  drink
unworthily,  not  discerning  the  Lord's  Body?  And  how  shall
they  discern  the  Lord's  Body,  if  they  are  not  taught  that  the
Lord's  Body  is  here  present?"  Sermon  on  the  Christian  Altar
and  Sacrifice,  p.  xii.
