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THE HOLY SUPPER.

and obedience are as certainly ours, as if we had in our own persons suffered and made satisfaction for our sins to God (1 Cor. 11;26).

John 6;55, 49, 51.—For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. If any man eat of this bread he shall live forever.

1 Cor. 11;24.—He took bread and said...........Take eat: this is my body.—1 Cor. 11;25.—1 Cor. 10;16.

1 Cor. 11;26.—For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.—Rom. 8;4.

30. LORD’S DAY.

80. What difference is there between the Lord’s supper and the Popish mass?

The Lord’s supper testifies to us, that we have a full pardon of all sin by the only sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which he himself has once accomplished on the cross (Heb. 10;14); and that we by the Holy Ghost are ingrafted into Christ (John 6;63); who, according to his human nature, is not now on earth, but in heaven, at the right hand of God his Father, and will there be worshipped by us (Acts 7;56-59); but the mass teacheth that the living and the dead have not the pardon of sins, through the sufferings of Christ, unless Christ is also daily offered for them by the priests; and further, that Christ is bodily under the form of bread and wine, and therefore is to be worshipped in them; so that the mass, at bottom, is