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Q. What is the signe in the Lords Supper?
A. Thex 1.1 eating of the bread, and drinking of the winey 1.2 to the nouri∣shing of the body.
Q. What is the grace signified?
A. The eating of Christs body, and drinking of Christs bloud to the nou∣rishing of our soules.
Q. Christ is in heauen, we are on earth; How can we eate his body and drinke his bloud?
A. By faith.
So saith our Sauiour, Ioh. 6. 35. He that commeth to me shall neuer hunger; He that beleeueth in mee shall neuer thirst.
Therefore to bel••eue in him is to drinke him. And consider in reason.
Q. What is the hunger and thirst of a Christian, as a Christian?
A. An appetite after that which con∣serues the life of a Christian.
Q. What is that?
A,z 1.3 The fauour of God to the par∣••oning of our sinnes, and to the sauing of our soules.
Q. What is the next way to satisfie this hunger, and to quench this thirst?
A.a 1.4 To beleeue that Iesus Christ gaue his body to be crucified,* 1.5 and his bloud to be shed for our sinnes.
Q. What lesson doth this Sacrament teach us?
A. As truely as the bread that wee eate, and the wine that we drinke ••oth nourish and comfort our bodies; b 1.6 so the body, and bloud of Christ, if we eate and drinke themc 1.7 by faith, shall nourish our soules vnto euer∣lasting life.
Q. How many things are required to prepare vs to the worthy receiuing of the Lords Supper?
A. Foure things.
Q. What are the two first?
A.d 1.8 Knowledge ande 1.9 faith.
Q. Where is that taught vs?
A. In our Creed, and Catechisme.
Q. What are the two last?
A.f 1.10 Repentance,* 1.11 andg 1.12 Loue.
Q. Where is that taught vs?
A. In the ten Commandements.
Q. Why is knowledge required to the Lords Supper, and not to Baptisme?
A. Because baptisme is the sacra∣ment of our birth in Christ: the Lords supper is the sacrament of our growth in Christ.
Q. What is this faith that is requi∣red?
A.h 1.13 To beleeue that Iesus Christ gaue his body to be crucified, and his bloud to be shed for our sinnes.
Q. Why is faith required?
A. Because well we may eate the bread, and drinke the wine without faith: but wei 1.14 cannot eat Christs bo∣dy, and drinke his bloud without faith.
True; for the eating of his body is a spirituall eating, and the drinking of his bloud is a spirituall drinking, consisting in meditation of the wonderfull loue of God the Father, who, to saue our
soules, spared not his owne Sonne: The wonderfull loue of God the sonne, who to saue our soules, spared not his owne selfe, but gaue himselfe to suffer a shame∣full death, a bitter death, and an accursed death for our sinnes:k 1.15 Here is the loue of Christ that passeth knowledge: such is the breadth and length, and depth, and height of it, that we are not able sufficiently to comprehend it.
And like as the body by feeding and drinking, doth gather strength for the better performance of all actions of na∣ture: so the soule of a Christian by me∣ditation on this loue of Christ in giuing his body to be crucified, and his bloud to be shed for our sinnes, doth gather more and more strength continually for the better performance of all actions of grace; whether they be actions of de∣pendance, to depend vpon him, and put our trust in him in all states, in all condi∣tions, euen in the time of affliction, and persecution, and at the very hou••e of death; Or whether they be actions of conformitie to his will, in obeying him, and walking in the wayes of his holy commandements vnto the end?
Q. Why is repentance required••
A.l 1.16 Because faith is required.
For by faith we beleeue that Christ died for vs.
Q. What ought we then to doe for him?
A. Tom 1.17 serue him all the dayes of our life: And sith we cannot serue him by perfect obedience; to serue him as we can, by true repentance.
Q. How many parts be there of re∣pentance?
A. Foure parts.
Q. What are the two first?
A. Ton 1.18 confesse our sinnes, and to beo 1.19 sorry for them.
Q. What are the two last?
A. Top 1.20 pray to God to forgiue them for Christs sake,q 1.21 and to amend our liues: desiring God to giue vs grace that we may amend them.
Q. How many offices be there of loue?
A. Three.
Q. What is the first?
A. To doe ourr 1.22 neighbour no wrong.
Q. What is the second?
A. To doe him good if wee can.
Q. What is the third?
A. If he doth vs wrong to forgiue him.
Q. Why must we haue this loue?
A.s 1.23 Because we looke that God for Christs sake should forgi••e vs.
Mat. 26, 26. 27.
Ps. 104. 15.
Ps. 4. 6. 7 & 32. 3, 4, 5.
Ioh. 6. 54 35.
Ioh 4. 14.
Ioh. 6. 27. 33. 35.
Ioh. 6, 40
1. Cor. 11. 28. 29.
Luk. ••2. 19. 20.
Luk 22. 11.
1. Cor. 11. 30. 31.
Mat. ••. 23.
Cal. 2. 20
Ioh. 6. 35.
Eph. 3. 19. 18.
Gal. 5. 5. Luk. 17. 47. 50.
1. Cor. 6. 20.
Mar. 1. 5
2. Cor. 7 11.
Luk. 18. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Mat. 3. 8
1. Cor. 13 ••, 5, 6, 7.
Eph. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 32.