The "peculiar benefit" of High Church Receptionism

Another example of the piety of High Church Receptionism, associated with the Hackney Phalanx, from George D'Oyly, Sermon V 'On the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper' in Sermons, chiefly doctrinal, with notes (1827), on the Words of Institution:

Surely here are important words, which would be altogether superfluous, if a mere commemorative rite had been intended. Had such only been the meaning, our Lord would, no doubt, have commanded His disciples to eat bread and to drink wine in remembrance of Him. He would not have told them that the bread was His body broken for them; that the wine was His blood shed for them; words, which can only be verified by the fact that, in some sense, the bread and wine in the Eucharist do become the body and blood of Christ. That they do not become so in a literal sense, is shewn by the plainest evidence of our senses. It remains, therefore, that they must become so in a symbolical or in a spiritual sense; in the sense that to the worthy receiver they are the signs and symbols of His body and blood. Hence, assuredly, there must be designed in this holy institution some thing more than a mere memorial; there must be, in addition, some sort of partaking of the body and blood of Christ, some peculiar benefit derived from that body, and from that blood of the New Testament, which has been shed for all men for the remission of sins.

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