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SERMON I.

INVITATION TO THE LORD'S SUPPER.

LUKE 22. 14, 15.

And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.

OUR Saviour and his twelve apostles had now lived together upon earth only for three years, or but little longer, He as Teacher and they as disciples, in habits of affectionate communion. Yet it is evident, from the words of the text, that He felt no small concern at the thought of parting from their company. And it will be profitable for us to observe, that both this his affectionate concern, and also the apprehension of his own personal sufferings, admitted of being soothed, as his words lead us to suppose, by his partaking,

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