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- CALVIN, JOHN 1509-1564
"Heads Of Agreement On The Lord's Supper"
"This document by Calvin is a composition of the major heads of agreement on the Lord's Supper
between Calvinists and the ministers of Zurich"
- CALVIN, JOHN 1509-1564
"Short Treatise On The Supper Of Our Lord Jesus Christ"
"As the holy sacrament of the Supper of our Lord Jesus Christ has long been the subject of
several important errors, and in these past years been anew enveloped in diverse opinions and
contentious disputes, it is no wonder if many weak consciences cannot fairly resolve what view
they ought to take of it, but remain in doubt and perplexity, waiting till all contention being laid
aside, the servants of God come to some agreement upon it."
- EDWARDS,
JONATHAN 1703-1758
"The Qualifications Requisite To A Complete Standing And Full
Communion"
"The main question I would consider, and for the negative of which I would offer some arguments
in the following discourse, is this: Whether, according to the rules of Christ, any ought to be
admitted to the communion and privileges of members of the visible church of Christ in complete
standing, but such as are in profession, and in the eye of the church's Christian judgment, godly or
gracious persons?"
PREFACE
PART
1 - "The Question Stated And Explained"
PART
2 - "Reasons For The Negative Of The Foregoing Question"
PART
3 - "Objections Answered"
- GILL, JOHN 1697-1771
"Of The Lord's Supper"
"After the ordinance of baptism follows the ordinance of the Lord's Supper;
the one is preparatory to the other; and he that has a right to the one has a right to the other; and
none but such who have submitted to the former, ought to be admitted to the latter. Baptism is to
be administered but once, when we first make a profession of Christ, and of faith in him; but the
ordinance of the supper is to be frequently administered, and continued throughout the stage of
life, it being our spiritual food, for the support and maintenance of our spiritual
life."
- PIPER, JOHN 1946
"Why We Eat The Lord's Supper"
SERMON 1 - 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
SERMON 2 - 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
SERMON 3 - 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
"So, as we spend two weeks on this doctrine of the Lord's Supper, let no one say, "What's the big
deal?" Rather let us humble ourselves and realize that while we may enjoy freedom of religion in
this country, so that no one is burned or beheaded for religious reasons, we may also have lost all
sense of the weight and wonder of what Christ has given us in the ordinances of his church. It
would do us well to admit that if their age was marked by brutality, ours is marked by
superficiality. They may have weighed things differently than we would, but it may be that we
have lost the capacity to feel weighty truth at all."
- RYLE, J.C. 1816-1900
"The Lord's Supper"
"I firmly believe that ignorant views or false doctrine about this ordinance lie at the root of some
of the present divisions of professing Christians. Some neglect it altogether; some completely
misunderstand it; some exalt it to a position it was never meant to occupy, and turn it into an
idol."
- SPURGEON, C.H. 1868-1956
"The Lord's Supper, Simple But Sublime"
"This simple feast of the Lord's supper, consisting of the breaking and eating of bread, and the
pouring forth and drinking of wine, has two objects upon its very surface. It is intended as a
memorial of Christ, and it is intended as a showing or a manifestation of our faith in
Christ, and of Christ's death, to others. These are the two objects: 'This do ye in remembrance
of me:'; and 'Thus ye do shew the Lord's death till he come...'"
- TURRETIN, FRANCIS 1623-1687
"Consubstantiation"
"Is Christ corporeally present in the Eucharist, and is he eaten with the mouth by believers? We
deny against the Romanists and Lutherans."
- WARFIELD, BENJAMIN B. 1851-1921
"The Fundamental Significance Of The Lord's Supper"
The reason why Christ made a change in the symbols representative of his sacrificed self is
obvious enough. He to whom all the Paschal lambs from the beginning had been pointing, was
about to be offered up. The old things were passing away: behold, all things were to become new.
As he was in no doubt as to his approaching death or rather as he was in the act of preparing for
the death he was himself to accomplish for sinners: so he was in no doubt as to the approaching
dissolution of the Jewish state, and the cessation of the ritual law, and with it of the sacrifices
which that law prescribed.
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