[Rom. 6:22] The Lord's Supper confers all the benefits which Christ
secured by His sufferings and death. [Eph. 1:7] Each communicant is
assured by the words of Christ Himself that the body which he receives
along with the bread was given for _him_, and that the blood which he
receives along with the wine was shed for _him_, for the remission of
_his_ sins. The promise of grace and forgiveness held out to all in the
Gospel is thus brought home to each individual in the Lord's Supper.
Each believing communicant is individually assured that Christ is _his_
Saviour, and that _he_ has the forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation
through Christ's death.
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III. _How can the bodily eating and drinking produce such great
effects?_
The eating and the drinking, indeed, do not produce them; but the words
which stand here, namely, "given and shed for you for the remission of
sins." These words are, besides the bodily eating and drinking, the
chief things in the sacrament; and he who believes these words has that
which they declare and set forth; namely, the remission of sins.
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