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Now will He speak openly of the same Sacrament, whereby He was carried in His Own Hands. "O taste and see that the Lord is good" (ver. 8). Doth not the Psalm now open itself, and show thee that seeming insanity and constant madness, the same insanity and sober inebriety of that David, who in a figure showed I know not what, when in the person of king Achis they said to him, How is it? 1 When the Lord said, "Except a man eat My Flesh and drink My Blood, he shall have no life in him"? 2 And they in whom reigned Achis, that is, error and ignorance, said; what said they? "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 3 If thou art ignorant, "Taste and see that the Lord is good:" but if thou understandest not, thou art king Achis: David shall change His Countenance and shall depart from thee, and shall quit thee, and shall depart. 4
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Al. "when those wretched ones before king Achis said, How is it?" ↩
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John vi. 53. ↩
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John vi. 52. ↩
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[Luther's doctrine, and even Calvin's, admits of this language. Rhetorically, even Zwinglians might use the same. For the primitive doctrine see Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, A.N.F. vol. i. p. 185, note 6, and 528, note 4. Observe also the fragment (xiii.) on p. 570.--C.] ↩
