At the Table of the Lord, September 6, 1730

The principal part of my discourse at the table of the Lord this evening was a meditation on these words, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John i. 29. He is the Lamb. He is the Lamb of God; sent, appointed, approved by him. And he takes away sin; — not only some little, slight offences, but all sin: he has merit enough to take away those of the whole world! Behold him, with a sense, of the malignity of that sin, which it needed the blood of such a Lamb to expiate. Behold it, with an apprehension of the goodness of God in appointinof him for a sacrifice; with a becomini’ regard to the Lord Jesus Christ, who submitted himself to death for us; and with an entire dependence upon him. Lord, I lay my sins on the head of this great sacrifice; content to lie forever under them, if there be not merit enough in him to expiate them all. Behold him, with a resolution to maintain becoming regards to him for the future; and in the expectation of seeing the Lamb upon his throne, and of ascribing eternal adorations to him.

In breaking the bread, I observed, the goodness of God in frequently repeating this solemnity.

In the prayer, I considered it as an engagement to live and die to the Lord; — and as an encouragement to hope that we shall be the Lord’s both in life and in death; declaring our dependence upon God, that he would perform his part of the covenant, and upon his grace, that we might perform ours.