"ment in my blood: () this do ye as often as ye "drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as "6 ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew "the Lord's death till he come.

• Exod, xiii, 9. 1 Cor. xi, 26.

This promife is repeated by the holy apoftle Paul, where he fays, (p) "The cup of bleffing "which we blefs, is it not the communion of the "blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, ❝is it not the communion of the body of Chrift "For we being many, are one bread and one "body; because we are all partakers of that one "bread."

1 Cor. x, 16, 17.

XXIX.

LORD'S DAY.

Q. 78. Do then the bread and wine become the very body and blood of Chrift?

A. Not at all: (q) but as the water in baptifm is not changed into the blood of Chrift, neither is the wahing away of fin itfelf, being only the fign and confirmation thereof appointed of God; fo the bread in the Lord's fupper is not changed into the very

91 Cor. x, 1, 2, 3, 4. 1 Pet., iii, 21. John vi. 35, 62, 63.

(r) body of Chrift; though agreeable to the (s) nature and properties of facraments, it is called the body of Chirft Jefus.

r 1 Cor. x, 16, &c. and xi, 20, &c, s Gen. xvii, 10, 11, 14. Exod. xii, 26, 27, 43, 48. Acts vii, 8. Mat. xxvi, 26. Mark xiv, 24.

Q79. Why then doth Chrift call the bread bis body and the cup his blood, or the new covenant in his blood; and Paul the "Communion of the body "and blood of Chrift ?"

A. Chrift fpeaks thus, not without great reason, namely not only thereby to teach us, that as bread and wine fupport this temporal life, fo his crucified body and shed blood, are the true meat and drink whereby our fouls are (t) fed to eternal life; but more especially by thefe vifible figns and pledges to affure us, that we are as really partakers of his true body and blood (by the operation of the Holy Ghoft) as we (u) receive by the mouths of our bo dies thefe holy figns in remembrance of him; and that all his fufferings (v) and obedience, are as certainly ours, as if we had in our own perfons fuffered and made fatisfaction for our fins to God.

↑ John vi, 51, 55, 56, u 1 Cor. x, 16, 17. and xi, 26, 27, 28. Eph. v, 32. v Rom. v, 9, 18, 19. and viii, 4.

XXX. LORD's DAY.

Q. 80. What difference is there between the Lord's Tupper and the popish majs?

A. The Lord's fupper teftifies to us, that we have a full pardon of Il fin (x) by the only facrifice of Jesus Christ, which he himself has once accomplifhed on the crofs; and, that we by the Holy Ghost are ingrafted (y) into Chrift, who, according to his human nature is now not on earth,, but in (z) heaven, at the right hand of God his Father, and will there (a) be worshipped by us :-but the mafs teacheth that the living and dead have not the pardon of fins through the fufferings of Chrift, unless Christ is also daily affered for them by the pricfts; and further, that Chrift is bodily under the form of bread and wine, and therefore is to be (b) worshipped in them; fo that the mafs at bottom, is nothing else than a (c) denial of the one facrifice and fufferings of Jefus Chrift, and an accurfed idolatry.

Mat. xxvi, 28.

* Heb. vii, 27. and ix, 12, 26. Luke xxii, 19, 20. 2 Cor, v, 21. y 1 Cor. vi, 17. and xii, 13. z Heb. i, 3. and viii, 1, &c. a John iv, 21, 22, 23. Col. iii, 1. Phillip. iii, 20. Luke xxiv, 12, 53. Acts vii, 55, 6 In canone Missæ and de confecra, diftinct. 2, Concil. Trid. Sefs. 13, 15. Ifa. i, 11; 14. Mat. xv, 9. Col. ii, 22, 23. Jer. ii, 13.

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Q. 81. For whom is the Lord's fupper inflituted?

A. For thofe who are truely forrowful (d) for their fins, and yet truft that thefe are forgiven them for the fake of Chrift; and that their remaining infirmities (e) are covered by his paffion and death, and who alfo carneftly (f) defire to have their faith more and more ftrengthened, and their lives more holy; but hopocrites, and fuch as turn not to God with fincere hearts, eat and (g) drink judgment to themselves.

d Mat. v, 3, 6. Luke vii, 37, 38, and xv, 18, 19. e Pf. ciii, 3. ƒ Pf. cxvi, 12, 13, 14. 1 Pet. ii, 11, 12.

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'I' Cor. x, 20, &c. and xi, 28, &c. Tit. i, 16. Pf. 1, 15, 16.

Q. 82. Are they alfo to be admitted to this fupper, who by confeffion and life declare themselves infidels and ungodly?

A. No; for by this, the covenant of God would be profaned, and his wrath (h) kindled against the whole congregation: therefore it is the duty of the chriftian church, according to the appointment of (i) Chrift and his apoftles, to exclude fuch perfons, by the keys of the kingdom of heaven, till they fhew amendment of life.

hi Cor. x, 21, and xi, 30, 31. Ifa. i, xi, 13. Jer, vii, 21. Pf. 1, 16, 22. ¿ Mat. xviii, 17, 18.

XXXI. L OR D's D'A Y.

Q. 83. What are (k) the keys of the kingdom of heaven?

k Mat. xvi, 19.

A. The preaching (/) of the holy Gospel, and christian discipline (m) or excommunication out of the chriftian church; by these two, the kingdom of heaven is opened to believers, and hut against unbelievers..

/ John xx, 23. m Mat. xviii, 15, 18..

Q. 84. How is the kingdom of heaven opened and Shut by the preaching of the holy gospel?

A. Thus; when according to the command of (2) Chrift, it is declared and publicly teftified to all and every believer, that whenever they (o) receive the promife of the gofpel by a true faith, all their fins are really forgiven them of God, for the fake of Chrift's merits; and on the contrary, when it is declared and teftified to all unbelievers, and fuch as do not fincerely repent, that they stand exposed to the wrath of God, and eternal (p) condemnation,

Mat. xxviii, 19. John iii, 18, 36. Mark xvi. 16. p 2 Thef. i, 7, 8, 9.