Of the Lords Supper.
Q. WHAT is the Lords Supper?
A. A seale of our spiritu∣all nourishment in the Church.
Qu. What are the visible signes of that Sacrament?
A cleare forme of catechising, before the giving of the sacrament of the Lords Supper to this are subjoined two compends of the catechisme, fit for little children ... / by M. Zacharie Boyd ...
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- A cleare forme of catechising, before the giving of the sacrament of the Lords Supper to this are subjoined two compends of the catechisme, fit for little children ... / by M. Zacharie Boyd ...
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- Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.
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- Printed at Glasgow :: By George Anderson,
- 1639.
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- Lord's Supper -- Early works to 1800.
- Catechisms, English.
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"A cleare forme of catechising, before the giving of the sacrament of the Lords Supper to this are subjoined two compends of the catechisme, fit for little children ... / by M. Zacharie Boyd ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16536.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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Page 105
A. Bread and wine with the outward actions.
Q. What doth the bread repre∣sent?
A. The body of Christ.
Q. What doth the breaking of the bread represent?
A. The great sorrowes where∣with his body and soule were broken.
Q. What doth the wine sig∣nifie?
A. The blood of Christ.
Q. What doth the powreing out of the wine signifie?
A. The powreing out of Christs blood.
Q. What is the spirituall grace signified and offered unto us, by the elements and actions?
A. The spirituall nourishment of our soules.
Q. What must wee doe before wee come to the Sacrament?
Page 106
A. We must try and examine our selves.
Q. Wherein consists that exa∣mination?
A. That a man try himselfe, if hee hath these three things, faith, love and repentance.
Q. What should hee try of his faith?
A. If he know God, and is in some measure assured that Christ died for him.
Q. What should he try of his love?
A. If he loveth his GOD above all things; and if he loveth the well of his neighbours person, name, and estate.
Q. What shall he try of his re∣pentance?
A. If from his heart hee bee sorry for his bypast sins, and resol∣ved to amend his life for all times to come.
Q. May we not communicate without any of these three?
Page 107
A. No, not.
Q. What is the danger if wee want any of them?
A. Wee eat and drink judge∣ment to our selves.
Q. Wherefore that?
A. Because we discerne not the Lords body.
Q. What callest thou to discerne the Lords body?
A. It is to put a difference be∣tweene the bread of the Sacra∣ment, the seale of his Body, and other common bread?
Q. What is that difference?
A. The bread of the Sacra∣ment is given for to be a seale of the foode of the soule, other bread is but for the belly.
Q. Who then is said rightly to discerne the Lords body?
A. He who in all reverence, trembling, receiveth the bread, not as common bread, but as consecrate, to be a seale of the food of the soule.
Page 108
Q. What is the punishment of those that communicate unworthily?
A. The punishment of the god∣ly is fore sicknesse, great sorrowes, shame and disgrace, and sometimes death of body.
Q. What is the punishment of the wicked?
A. Death both of soule and body; from which the Lord deliver us for Christ his Son sake.
Amen.