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Thoughts on the Lord’s Supper: Designed for the Help of Christians in This Day of Difficulty is unavailable, but you can change that!

For all the division, schism, controversy it has caused, the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper has been observed by the entire Church since its beginning—consequently one of its most unifying features. Still, the historicity of the sacrament does not diminish the questions and concerns which surround it. Mackintosh addresses the superstition and fears that have been historically associated with the...

was one, at least, of His objects in the institution of the Supper. He would gather His people around His own blessed person; He would spread a table for them where, in view of His broken body and shed blood, they might remember Him, and the intensity of His love for them, and from whence, also, they might look forward into the future, and contemplate the glory of which the Cross is the everlasting foundation. There, if anywhere, they would learn to forget their differences, and to love one another;
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