In this sacrament, Christ is not offered up to His Father; nor any real sacrifice made at all, for remission of sins of the quick or dead; but only a commemoration of that one offering up of Himself, by Himself, upon the cross, once for all: and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God, for the same: so that the popish sacrifice of the mass (as they call it) is most abominably injurious to Christ's one, only sacrifice, the only propitiation for all the sins of His elect.
According to the Scriptures:
1. The Supper is not an offering or real sacrifice for atonement or propitiation of sins (Hebrews 7:23ff.).
2. The Supper commemorates Christ's once-for-all sacrifice that cannot be repeated (Hebrews 9:24-28).
3. The Supper is properly conceived as a spiritual oblation of praise unto God (Hebrews 13:15-16).
The proper emphasis in any celebration of the Lord's Supper is what Christ has done and is doing in his divine session and the spiritual graces made evident, not upon what any celebrant is doing with the bread and wine.
Tomorrow: The biblical conduct of the Supper.
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