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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...

2. of those who are not looking for something external but nevertheless remain greatly ensnared by their feelings, believing that there is no other source of joy in the Lord’s Supper except that they feel and are aware of a sensible impression of such and such a matter. Or, to say it even more clearly, such a soul wants her affections to be touched, moved, stroked, and stimulated in a measure as she has seen at times and detected in herself or in others. It is true that the joy of which we are speaking
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