A34242:567
The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. Christ hath appointed the ministers of his word, in the administration ⟨p. 152⟩of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, to set apart the bread and wine from common use, by the word of institution, thanksgiving, & prayer, to take and break the bread, and to give both the bread, & the wine to the Communicants, who are, by the same appointment, to take, & eat the bread, and to drink the wine, in thankful remembrance that the body of Christ was broken and given, and his blood shed for themf.
A. Christ hath appointed the ministers of his word, in the administratition ⟨p. 152⟩of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, to set apart the bread and wine from common use, by the word of institution, thanksgiving, & prayer, to take and break the bread, and to give both the bread, & the wine to the Communicants, who are, by the same appointment, to take, & eat the bread, and to drink the wine, in thankful remembrance that the body of Christ was broken and given, and his blood shed for themf.
Q. 170. How do they that worthily communicate in the Lords Supper, feed upon the body and blood of Christ therein?