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In Remembrance of Him: Profiting from the Lord’s Supper is unavailable, but you can change that!

The two seventeenth-century essays translated and offered in this book were originally designed to help people of the Dutch Further Reformation derive the greatest benefit from celebrating the Lord’s Supper. Guilelmus Saldenus’ “The Efficacy of the Lord’s Supper” concentrates on the joy received in celebrating the sacrament and the sanctified living that it generates. Wilhelmus à Brakel’s...

All religious duties have two objectives, the primary being God’s honor and the secondary being the spiritual profit of man. Therefore, in all that he does, a Christian must have these two objectives in view, though there must be a distinction between them. Without having these two in view, he will be incapable of doing any good. He must either deny his obligatory love toward God or his love for himself, and it is entirely fitting and essential that the first objective have the preeminence.
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