The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally…

Expl. 96. When 'tis here said the Lord's Supper is a Sacrament, we are to understand no more by a Sacrament, then that 'tis a seal of the righteousness of faith; so that those persons who do run to the righteousness of works, or or of the Law in order to justification, they run out of the tenor of the Covenant of Grace, in which only the righteousness of ⟨p. 166⟩faith is sealed to the believer. More particularly in this great Gospel-ordinance of the N. T. We have (1) the Sacramental signs, Bread and Wine; not Bread only, or Wine only, but both, hereby noting that we have in Christ whatever is needful (whether for support or comfort) to life everlasting. (2) The thing outwardly represented by these two elements, sc. Christ's body and blood; by the Bread his body; so that the Papists who stick so close to the letter, might with as much show of reason conclude that Christ's body was turned into Bread, as that the Bread was turned into his body. And by the Bread broken, is signified his body being wounded and broken; and by the Wine his blood, and by the pouring forth of the Wine, the shedding forth of his blood, without which no remission. (3) The Sacramental actions, sc. giving and receiving, whereby is noted not only that he gave himself for sinners, but that he gives himself to believers; and that as by the bodily hand they receive the Bread and Wine, so by a hand of saith they receive and accept of Christ as he offereth himself in the Gospel. (4) The spiritual signification of the whole, sc. the righteousness of Christ, and all the benefits of his Mediatory undertaking, made over and sealed to them in the Covenant of Grace, who do by faith apply these to themselves; so that every worthy Communicant may say, Christ dyed for me, &c. (5) The authoritative design of ⟨p. 167⟩all this to this very end and purpose by Christ himself, who alone can appoint Gospel Sacraments; because he alone can bestow that Grace of which Sacraments are but the Conduit pipes. (6) That worthy Receivers are partakers of Christ's body and blood, not in a gross and corporal, but in a spiritual manner, for if the Bread were the real body or flesh of Christ which we eat in this Sacrament, then it would be no Sacrament at all; because the sign and thing signified would be really the same.

Expl. 96. When 'tis here said the Lord's Supper is a Sacrament, we are to understand no more by a Sacrament, then that 'tis a seal of the righteousness of faith; so that those persons who do run to the righteousness of works, or or of the Law in order to justification, they run out of the tenour of the Covenant of Grace, in which only the righteousnss of