also to be obligatory, or an essential, with all Christians.
“For except a man were to eat his flesh, and
to drink his blood, he was to have no life in him.”
The supper, on the other hand, which our Saviour is
supposed to have instituted on the celebration of
the passover, was not enjoined by him to any but the
disciples present. And it was, according to the
confession of St. Paul, to last only for a time.
This time is universally agreed upon to be that of
the coming of Christ. That is, the duration of
the spiritualized passover was to be only till those
to whom it had been recommended, had arrived at a
state of religious manhood, or till they could enjoy
the supper which Jesus Christ had commanded at Capernaum;
after which repast, the Quakers believe they would
consider all others as empty, and as not having the
proper life and nourishment in them, and as of a kind
not to harmonize with the spiritual nature of the Christian
religion.