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DOCTRINE I. That the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is an instrument used by the holy Ghost for the furthering of our communion with Christ and his Church.
WE believe, that the Sacrament of the Supper is not onely a testi∣monie of our communion with Christ, and so with his flesh and bloud, and also with the whole Church: but also an instrument used by the holy Ghost to confirme and further the same. The Apostle saith as much,a 1.1 The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? The breaking and the recei∣ving the blessed bread, he calls the communion of the Lord's body: be∣cause, they which eat thereof with actuall faith in the Lord himself, grow up together in communion with the Lord himself, and with his flesh and bloud: Even as they also, which with faith embrace the word preached by the Apostles,b 1.2 have also fellowship with the Apostles; and that fellowship is with the Father, and his Son Iesus Christ.