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      <title>"Lord's Day 35: The Second Commandment"</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<h2>Lord's Day 35</h2><h3>The Second Commandment</h3><p><em>Christian Gratitude</em></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 96</h4><p>What does God require in the second commandment?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>That we in no wise represent God by images, <sup id="fnref:fn96a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">1</sup> nor worship him in any other way than he has commanded in his word. <sup id="fnref:fn96b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">2</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 97</h4><p>Are images then not at all to be made?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>God neither can, nor may be represented by any means: <sup id="fnref:fn97a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">3</sup> but as to creatures; though they may be represented, yet God forbids to make, or have any resemblance of them, either in order to worship them or to serve God by them. <sup id="fnref:fn97b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">4</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 98</h4><p>But may not images be tolerated in the churches, as books to the laity?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>No: for we must not pretend to be wiser than God, who will have his people taught, not by dump images, <sup id="fnref:fn98a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">5</sup> but by the lively preaching of his word. <sup id="fnref:fn98b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">6</sup></p><div class="footnote"><hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #D6CBAF; margin: 24px 0 16px 0;"/><ol style="padding-left: 18px; margin: 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #3D2E1F;"><li id="fn:fn96a"><p>Deuteronomy 4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:</p><p>Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,</p><p>Deuteronomy 4:17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,</p><p>Deuteronomy 4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:</p><p>Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.</p><p>Isaiah 40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?</p><p>Isaiah 40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.</p><p>Isaiah 40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.</p><p>Isaiah 40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?</p><p>Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:</p><p>Isaiah 40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.</p><p>Isaiah 40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.</p><p>Isaiah 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.</p><p>Romans 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.</p><p>Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:</p><p>Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. </p></li><li id="fn:fn96b"><p>1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.</p><p>Deuteronomy 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.</p><p>Deuteronomy 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.</p><p>Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.</p><p>Matthew 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. </p></li><li id="fn:fn97a"><p>Isaiah 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. </p></li><li id="fn:fn97b"><p>Exodus 23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.</p><p>Exodus 23:25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.</p><p>Exodus 34:13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:</p><p>Exodus 34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:</p><p>Exodus 34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.</p><p>Numbers 33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:</p><p>Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.</p><p>Deuteronomy 12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.</p><p>Deuteronomy 16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.</p><p>2 Kings 18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.</p><p>2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. </p></li><li id="fn:fn98a"><p>Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.</p><p>Habakkuk 2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?</p><p>Habakkuk 2:19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. </p></li><li id="fn:fn98b"><p>Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?</p><p>Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!</p><p>Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.</p><p>2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: </p></li></ol></div>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<h2>Lord's Day 34</h2><h3>The Law of God and the First Commandment</h3><p><em>Christian Gratitude</em></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 92</h4><p>What is the law of God?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Question 93: How are these commandments divided?</p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 93</h4><p>How are these commandments divided?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Into two tables; <sup id="fnref:fn93a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">1</sup> the first of which teaches us how we must behave towards God; the second, what duties we owe to our neighbour. <sup id="fnref:fn93b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">2</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 94</h4><p>What does God enjoin in the first commandment?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>That I, as sincerely as I desire the salvation of my own soul, avoid and flee from all idolatry, <sup id="fnref:fn94a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">3</sup> sorcery, soothsaying, superstition, <sup id="fnref:fn94b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">4</sup> invocation of saints, or any other creatures; <sup id="fnref:fn94c" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">5</sup> and learn rightly to know the only true God; <sup id="fnref:fn94d" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">6</sup> trust in him alone, <sup id="fnref:fn94e" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">7</sup> with humility <sup id="fnref:fn94f" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">8</sup> and patience submit to him; <sup id="fnref:fn94g" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">9</sup> expect all good things from him only; <sup id="fnref:fn94h" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">10</sup> love, <sup id="fnref:fn94i" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">11</sup> fear, <sup id="fnref:fn94j" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">12</sup> and glorify him with my whole heart; <sup id="fnref:fn94k" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">13</sup> so that I renounce and forsake all creatures, rather than commit even the least thing contrary to his will. <sup id="fnref:fn94l" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">14</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 95</h4><p>What is idolatry?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Idolatry is, instead of, or besides that one true God, who has manifested himself in his word, to contrive, or have any other object, in which men place their trust. <sup id="fnref:fn95a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">15</sup></p><div class="footnote"><hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #D6CBAF; margin: 24px 0 16px 0;"/><ol style="padding-left: 18px; margin: 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #3D2E1F;"><li id="fn:fn93a"><p>Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.</p><p>Deuteronomy 4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.</p><p>Deuteronomy 10:3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.</p><p>Deuteronomy 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. </p></li><li id="fn:fn93b"><p>Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.</p><p>Matthew 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.</p><p>Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.</p><p>Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94a"><p>1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.</p><p>1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,</p><p>1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94b"><p>Leviticus 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.</p><p>Deuteronomy 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.</p><p>Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,</p><p>Deuteronomy 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.</p><p>Deuteronomy 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94c"><p>Matthew 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.</p><p>Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.</p><p>Revelation 22:8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.</p><p>Revelation 22:9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94d"><p>John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94e"><p>Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.</p><p>Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94f"><p>1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.</p><p>1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: </p></li><li id="fn:fn94g"><p>Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.</p><p>Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;</p><p>Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;</p><p>Romans 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.</p><p>Philippians 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: </p></li><li id="fn:fn94h"><p>Psalm 104:27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.</p><p>Psalm 104:28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.</p><p>Psalm 104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.</p><p>Psalm 104:30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.</p><p>Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.</p><p>James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94i"><p>Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.</p><p>Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94j"><p>Deuteronomy 6:2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.</p><p>Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.</p><p>Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.</p><p>Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.</p><p>Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94k"><p>Matthew 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.</p><p>Deuteronomy 10:20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.</p><p>Deuteronomy 10:21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. </p></li><li id="fn:fn94l"><p>Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.</p><p>Matthew 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.</p><p>Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.</p><p>Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. </p></li><li id="fn:fn95a"><p>Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.</p><p>1 Chronicles 16:26 For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.</p><p>Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)</p><p>Galatians 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.</p><p>Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:</p><p>1 John 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.</p><p>2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.</p><p>John 5:23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. </p></li></ol></div>]]></description>
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      <title>"Lord's Day 33: True Conversion"</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<h2>Lord's Day 33</h2><h3>True Conversion</h3><p><em>Christian Gratitude</em></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 88</h4><p>Of how many parts does the true conversion of man consist?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Of two parts; of the mortification of the old, and the quickening of the new man. <sup id="fnref:fn88a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">1</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 89</h4><p>What is the mortification of the old man?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>It is a sincere sorrow of heart, that we have provoked God by our sins; and more and more to hate and flee from them. <sup id="fnref:fn89a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">2</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 90</h4><p>What is the quickening of the new man?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>It is a sincere joy of heart in God, through Christ, <sup id="fnref:fn90a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">3</sup> and with love and delight to live according to the will of God in all good works. <sup id="fnref:fn90b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">4</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 91</h4><p>But what are good works?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Only those which proceed from a true faith, <sup id="fnref:fn91a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">5</sup> are performed according to the law of God, <sup id="fnref:fn91b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">6</sup> and to his glory; <sup id="fnref:fn91c" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">7</sup> and not such as are founded on our imaginations, or the institutions of men. <sup id="fnref:fn91d" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">8</sup></p><div class="footnote"><hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #D6CBAF; margin: 24px 0 16px 0;"/><ol style="padding-left: 18px; margin: 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #3D2E1F;"><li id="fn:fn88a"><p>Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?</p><p>Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.</p><p>Romans 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:</p><p>Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.</p><p>Ephesians 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;</p><p>Ephesians 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;</p><p>Ephesians 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.</p><p>Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:</p><p>Colossians 3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:</p><p>Colossians 3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.</p><p>Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.</p><p>Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;</p><p>Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:</p><p>1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:</p><p>2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. </p></li><li id="fn:fn89a"><p>Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.</p><p>Joel 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.</p><p>Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. </p></li><li id="fn:fn90a"><p>Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:</p><p>Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.</p><p>Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. </p></li><li id="fn:fn90b"><p>Romans 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.</p><p>Romans 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.</p><p>Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. </p></li><li id="fn:fn91a"><p>Romans 14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. </p></li><li id="fn:fn91b"><p>Leviticus 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.</p><p>1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.</p><p>Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. </p></li><li id="fn:fn91c"><p>1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. </p></li><li id="fn:fn91d"><p>Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.</p><p>Ezekiel 20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:</p><p>Ezekiel 20:19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;</p><p>Isaiah 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:</p><p>Matthew 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,</p><p>Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.</p><p>Matthew 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. </p></li></ol></div>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<h2>Lord's Day 32</h2><h3>Good Works and Conversion</h3><p><em>Christian Gratitude</em></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 86</h4><p>Since then we are delivered from our misery, merely of grace, through Christ, without any merit of ours, why must we still do good works?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Because Christ, having redeemed and delivered us by his blood, also renews us by his Holy Spirit, after his own image; that so we may testify, by the whole of our conduct, our gratitude to God for his blessings, <sup id="fnref:fn86a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">1</sup> and that he may be praised by us; <sup id="fnref:fn86b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">2</sup> also, that every one may be assured in himself of his faith, <sup id="fnref:fn86c" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">3</sup> by the fruits thereof; and that, by our godly conversation others may be gained to Christ. <sup id="fnref:fn86d" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">4</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 87</h4><p>Cannot they then be saved, who, continuing in their wicked and ungrateful lives, are not converted to God?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>By no means; for the holy scripture declares that no unchaste person, idolater, adulterer, thief, covetous man, drunkard, slanderer, robber, or any such like, shall inherit the kingdom of God. <sup id="fnref:fn87a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">5</sup></p><div class="footnote"><hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #D6CBAF; margin: 24px 0 16px 0;"/><ol style="padding-left: 18px; margin: 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #3D2E1F;"><li id="fn:fn86a"><p>Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.</p><p>Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.</p><p>Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</p><p>1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.</p><p>1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:</p><p>1 Peter 2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.</p><p>1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. </p></li><li id="fn:fn86b"><p>Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.</p><p>1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.</p><p>1 Peter 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:</p><p>1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: </p></li><li id="fn:fn86c"><p>2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:</p><p>Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.</p><p>Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.</p><p>Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,</p><p>Galatians 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. </p></li><li id="fn:fn86d"><p>1 Peter 3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;</p><p>1 Peter 3:2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.</p><p>Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. </p></li><li id="fn:fn87a"><p>1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,</p><p>1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.</p><p>Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.</p><p>Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.</p><p>1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. </p></li></ol></div>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<h2>Lord's Day 31</h2><h3>The Keys of the Kingdom</h3><p><em>Divine Deliverance</em></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 83</h4><p>What are the keys of the kingdom of heaven?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Question 84: How is the kingdom of heaven opened and shut by the preaching of the holy gospel?</p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 84</h4><p>How is the kingdom of heaven opened and shut by the preaching of the holy gospel?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Thus: when according to the command of Christ, it is declared and publicly testified to all and every believer, that, whenever they receive the promise of the gospel by a true faith, all their sins are really forgiven them of God, for the sake of Christ's merits; and on the contrary, when it is declared and testified to all unbelievers, and such as do not sincerely repent, that they stand exposed to the wrath of God, and eternal condemnation, so long as they are unconverted: <sup id="fnref:fn84a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">1</sup> according to which testimony of the gospel, God will judge them, both in this, and in the life to come.</p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 85</h4><p>How is the kingdom of heaven shut and opened by christian discipline?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Thus: when according to the command of Christ, those, who under the name of christians, maintain doctrines, or practices inconsistent therewith, and will not, after having been often brotherly admonished, renounce their errors and wicked course of life, are complained of to the church, or to those, who are thereunto appointed by the church; and if they despise their admonition, are by them forbidden the use of the sacraments; whereby they are excluded from the christian church, and by God himself from the kingdom of Christ; and when they promise and show real amendment, are again received as members of Christ and his church. <sup id="fnref:fn85a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">2</sup></p><div class="footnote"><hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #D6CBAF; margin: 24px 0 16px 0;"/><ol style="padding-left: 18px; margin: 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #3D2E1F;"><li id="fn:fn84a"><p>Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.</p><p>Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</p><p>Matthew 18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.</p><p>Matthew 18:16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.</p><p>Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.</p><p>Matthew 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</p><p>Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.</p><p>John 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.</p><p>John 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:</p><p>John 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. </p></li><li id="fn:fn85a"><p>Matthew 18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.</p><p>Matthew 18:16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.</p><p>Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.</p><p>Matthew 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</p><p>1 Corinthians 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.</p><p>1 Corinthians 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,</p><p>1 Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,</p><p>1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.</p><p>1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.</p><p>2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.</p><p>2 Thessalonians 3:15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.</p><p>2 Corinthians 2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.</p><p>2 Corinthians 2:7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.</p><p>2 Corinthians 2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. </p></li></ol></div>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<h2>Lord's Day 30</h2><h3>The Lord's Supper (3)</h3><p><em>Divine Deliverance</em></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 80</h4><p>What difference is there between the Lord's supper and the popish mass?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>The Lord's supper testifies to us, that we have a full pardon of all sin by the only sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which he himself has once accomplished on the cross; <sup id="fnref:fn80a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">1</sup> and, that we by the Holy Ghost are ingrafted into Christ, <sup id="fnref:fn80b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">2</sup> who, according to his human nature is now not on earth, but in heaven, at the right hand of God his Father, <sup id="fnref:fn80c" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">3</sup> and will there be worshipped by us. <sup id="fnref:fn80d" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">4</sup> But the mass teaches, that the living and dead have not the pardon of sins through the sufferings of Christ, unless Christ is also daily offered for them by the priests; and further, that Christ is bodily under the form of bread and wine, and therefore is to be worshipped in them; so that the mass, at bottom, is nothing else than a denial of the one sacrifice and sufferings of Jesus Christ, and an accursed idolatry. <sup id="fnref:fn80e" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">5</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 81</h4><p>For whom is the Lord's supper instituted?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>For those who are truly sorrowful for their sins, and yet trust that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ; and that their remaining infirmities are covered by his passion and death; and who also earnestly desire to have their faith more and more strengthened, and their lives more holy; but hypocrites, and such as turn not to God with sincere hearts, eat and drink judgment to themselves. <sup id="fnref:fn81a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">6</sup></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 82</h4><p>Are they also to be admitted to this supper, who, by confession and life, declare themselves unbelieving and ungodly?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>No; for by this, the covenant of God would be profaned, and his wrath kindled against the whole congregation; <sup id="fnref:fn82a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">7</sup> therefore it is the duty of the christian church, according to the appointment of Christ and his apostles, to exclude such persons, by the keys of the kingdom of heaven, till they show amendment of life.</p><div class="footnote"><hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #D6CBAF; margin: 24px 0 16px 0;"/><ol style="padding-left: 18px; margin: 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #3D2E1F;"><li id="fn:fn80a"><p>Hebrews 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.</p><p>Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.</p><p>Hebrews 9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;</p><p>Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.</p><p>Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:</p><p>Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.</p><p>Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</p><p>Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;</p><p>Hebrews 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.</p><p>Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.</p><p>John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.</p><p>Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.</p><p>Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.</p><p>Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. </p></li><li id="fn:fn80b"><p>1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? </p></li><li id="fn:fn80c"><p>Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;</p><p>Hebrews 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;</p><p>Hebrews 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.</p><p>John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. </p></li><li id="fn:fn80d"><p>Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:</p><p>Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.</p><p>John 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.</p><p>John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.</p><p>John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.</p><p>John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.</p><p>Luke 24:52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:</p><p>Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,</p><p>Acts 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.</p><p>Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.</p><p>Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:</p><p>Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.</p><p>1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.</p><p>Hebrews 9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.</p><p>Hebrews 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:</p><p>Hebrews 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:</p><p>Hebrews 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;</p><p>Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. </p></li><li id="fn:fn80e"><p>Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.</p><p>Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;</p><p>Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.</p><p>Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,</p><p>Hebrews 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;</p><p>Hebrews 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;</p><p>Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.</p><p>Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)</p><p>Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:</p><p>Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.</p><p>Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,</p><p>Hebrews 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.</p><p>Hebrews 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:</p><p>Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?</p><p>Hebrews 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.</p><p>Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. </p></li><li id="fn:fn81a"><p>1 Corinthians 10:19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. </p></li><li id="fn:fn82a"><p>1 Corinthians 11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.</p><p>Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.</p><p>Isaiah 1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?</p><p>Isaiah 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.</p><p>Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.</p><p>Isaiah 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.</p><p>Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.</p><p>Jeremiah 7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.</p><p>Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:</p><p>Jeremiah 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.</p><p>Psalm 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? </p></li></ol></div>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<h2>Lord's Day 29</h2><h3>The Lord's Supper (2)</h3><p><em>Divine Deliverance</em></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 78</h4><p>Do then the bread and wine become the very body and blood of Christ?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Not at all: <sup id="fnref:fn78a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">1</sup> but as the water in baptism is not changed into the blood of Christ, neither is the washing away of sin itself, being only the sign and confirmation thereof appointed of God; <sup id="fnref:fn78b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">2</sup> so the bread in the Lord's supper is not changed into the very body of Christ; <sup id="fnref:fn78c" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">3</sup> though agreeably to the nature and properties of sacraments, <sup id="fnref:fn78d" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">4</sup> it is called the body of Christ Jesus.</p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 79</h4><p>Why then doth Christ call the bread "his body", and the cup "his blood", or "the new covenant in his blood"; and Paul the "communion of body and blood of Christ"?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Christ speaks thus, not without great reason, namely, not only thereby to teach us, that as bread and wine support this temporal life, so his crucified body and shed blood are the true meat and drink, whereby our souls are fed to eternal life; <sup id="fnref:fn79a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">5</sup> but more especially by these visible signs and pledges to assure us, that we are as really partakers of his true body and blood by the operation of the Holy Ghost as we receive by the mouths of our bodies these holy signs in remembrance of him; <sup id="fnref:fn79b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">6</sup> and that all his sufferings and obedience are as certainly ours, as if we had in our own persons suffered and made satisfaction for our sins to God.</p><div class="footnote"><hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #D6CBAF; margin: 24px 0 16px 0;"/><ol style="padding-left: 18px; margin: 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #3D2E1F;"><li id="fn:fn78a"><p>Matthew 26:29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. </p></li><li id="fn:fn78b"><p>Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,</p><p>Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; </p></li><li id="fn:fn78c"><p>Mark 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. </p></li><li id="fn:fn78d"><p>Genesis 17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.</p><p>Genesis 17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.</p><p>Genesis 17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.</p><p>Genesis 17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.</p><p>Exodus 12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.</p><p>Exodus 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.</p><p>Exodus 12:27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.</p><p>Exodus 12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:</p><p>Exodus 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.</p><p>Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.</p><p>1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. </p></li><li id="fn:fn79a"><p>John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.</p><p>John 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. </p></li><li id="fn:fn79b"><p>1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. </p></li></ol></div>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<h2>Lord's Day 28</h2><h3>The Lord's Supper (1)</h3><p><em>Divine Deliverance</em></p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 75</h4><p>How art thou admonished and assured in the Lord's Supper, that thou art a partaker of that one sacrifice of Christ, accomplished on the cross, and of all his benefits?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>Thus: That Christ has commanded me and all believers, to eat of this broken bread, and to drink of this cup, in remembrance of him, adding these promises: <sup id="fnref:fn75a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">1</sup> first, that his body was offered and broken on the cross for me, and his blood shed for me, as certainly as I see with my eyes, the bread of the Lord broken for me, and the cup communicated to me; and further, that he feeds and nourishes my soul to everlasting life, with his crucified body and shed blood, as assuredly as I receive from the hands of the minister, and taste with my mouth the bread and cup of the Lord, as certain signs of the body and blood of Christ.</p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 76</h4><p>What is it then to eat the crucified body, and drink the shed blood of Christ?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>It is not only to embrace with believing heart all the sufferings and death of Christ and thereby to obtain the pardon of sin, and life eternal; <sup id="fnref:fn76a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">2</sup> but also, besides that, to become more and more united to his sacred body, <sup id="fnref:fn76b" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">3</sup> by the Holy Ghost, who dwells both in Christ and in us; so that we, though Christ is in heaven <sup id="fnref:fn76c" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">4</sup> and we on earth, are notwithstanding "flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone" <sup id="fnref:fn76d" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">5</sup> and that we live, and are governed forever by one spirit, <sup id="fnref:fn76e" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">6</sup> as members of the same body are by one soul.</p><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B7355; margin: 0 0 2px 0;">Question 77</h4><p>Where has Christ promised that he will as certainly feed and nourish believers with his body and bleed, as they eat of this broken bread, and drink of this cup?</p><h5 style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; color: #5C1A2A; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Answer</h5><p>In the institution of the supper, which is thus expressed: <sup id="fnref:fn77a" style="font-size: 11px; color: #8B7355;">7</sup> "The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and: said: eat, this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying: this cup is the new testament in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For, as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come." 1 Corinthians 11:23-26. This promise is repeated by the holy apostle Paul, where he says "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread." 1 Corinthians 10:16,17.</p><div class="footnote"><hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #D6CBAF; margin: 24px 0 16px 0;"/><ol style="padding-left: 18px; margin: 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #3D2E1F;"><li id="fn:fn75a"><p>Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.</p><p>Matthew 26:27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;</p><p>Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Mark 14:22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. Mark 14:23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. Mark 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.</p><p>Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.</p><p>Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.</p><p>1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. </p></li><li id="fn:fn76a"><p>John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.</p><p>John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.</p><p>John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.</p><p>John 6:48 I am that bread of life.</p><p>John 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.</p><p>John 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.</p><p>John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.</p><p>John 6:52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?</p><p>John 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.</p><p>John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. </p></li><li id="fn:fn76b"><p>John 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.</p><p>John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. </p></li><li id="fn:fn76c"><p>Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.</p><p>Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. </p></li><li id="fn:fn76d"><p>Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;</p><p>Ephesians 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:</p><p>Ephesians 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.</p><p>Ephesians 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.</p><p>1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.</p><p>1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.</p><p>1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?</p><p>1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.</p><p>1 John 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.</p><p>John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. </p></li><li id="fn:fn76e"><p>John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.</p><p>John 6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.</p><p>John 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.</p><p>John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.</p><p>John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.</p><p>John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.</p><p>John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.</p><p>John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.</p><p>John 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.</p><p>Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:</p><p>Ephesians 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. </p></li><li id="fn:fn77a"><p>1 Corinthians 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.</p><p>1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.</p><p>Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.</p><p>Matthew 26:27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;</p><p>Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Mark 14:22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. Mark 14:23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. Mark 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.</p><p>Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.</p><p>Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?</p><p>1 Corinthians 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. </p></li></ol></div>]]></description>
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