And he took bread] Matthew 26:26. Mar. 14. 22. 1 Corinthians 11:23. This is my body] That is, the sign of my body: for instituting a new Sacrament, he spake after a Sacramentall manner; wherein the things signified are spoken for the sign, as vers. 7. The Passeover must be killed; that is, the pascall Lambe, the remembrance or signe of the destroying Angels passing over, and sparing the Israelites, Exodus 12:12-14. So he calleth the cup the New Testament, or covenant in his blood; that is, the sign, or remembrance of his blood-shedding.