Theological Directory (by Topic) - The Lord's Supper

Quotes

"This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." -- Luke 22:19

"Worthy receivers...do then also inwardly by faith...spiritually receive, and feed upon Christ crucified, and all the benefits of his death"
-- London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

"You see, then, Christian brethren, what is your appropriate employment at a communion table. Receive and give, give and receive-both in reference to the Saviour, and to one another. And oh may there be not only all emblematical, but a real communion between Him and each of you individually, and between every one of you, and every other one of you as brethren in Christ"
-- John Brown in Holy Communion

"Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein He was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of His body and blood, called the Lord's Supper, to be observed in His Church, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of Himself in His death; the sealing all benefits thereof unto true believers, their spiritual nourishment and growth in Him, their further engagement in and to all duties which they owe unto Him; and, to be a bond and pledge of their communion with Him, and with each other, as members of His mystical body."
-- The Westminister Confession of Faith 29:1

"You are not unacquainted with the day of our Communion. I entreat, therefore, the aid of your prayers for that great work, which is one of our feast days, wherein our well-beloved Jesus rejoiceth and is merry with his friends. Good cause have we to wonder at his love, since the day of his death was such a sorrowful day to him, even the day when his mother, the kirk [church], crowned him with thorns, and he has many against him, and appeared his lone in the fields against them all; yet he delights with us to remember that day. Let us love him, and be glad and rejoice at his salvation. I am confident that you shall see the Son of God that day, and I dare in his name invite you to his banquet."
-- Samuel Rutherford in Letters of Samuel Rutherford, Puritan Paperbacks, p.20-21

"The Supper is rightly viewed as a means of grace. The efficacy of the sacraments ...resides not in the faith or virture of the minister but in the faithfuness of God. As the preaching of the Word makes the gospel audible, so the sacraments make it visible, and the Holy Spirit stirs up faith by both means."
-- J.I. Packer

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