This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BAPTISM AND THE LORD'S SUPPER. "It is to be noted, that whereas nothing in this life is more acceptable before God, or more pleasant unto man, than Christain people to live together quietly in love and peace, unity and concord, this sacrament doth most aptly and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BAPTISM AND THE LORD'S SUPPER. "It is to be noted, that whereas nothing in this life is more acceptable before God, or more pleasant unto man, than Christain people to live together quietly in love and peace, unity and concord, this sacrament doth most aptly and effectuously move us thereunto. For when we be made all partakers of this one table, what ought we to think, but that we be all members of one spiritual body, whereof Christ is the head; that we be joined together in one Christ, as a great number of grains of corn be joined together in one loaf? Surely, they have very hard and stony hearts, which with these things be not moved; and more cruel and unreasonable be they than brute beasts, that cannot be persuaded to be good to their Christian brethren and neighbors, for whom Christ suffered death, when in this sacrament they be put in remembrance that the Son of God bestowed His life for H is enemies. For we see by daily experience, that eating and drinking together maketh friends, and continueth friendship;much more then ought the table of Christ to move us so to do."--Archbishop Cranmcr, en The Lord's Supper, Parker Society Publications, pp. 42, 43. CHAPTER V. The Social Significance Of Baptism And The Lord's Supper. IT is a strange thing how we forget one half of the Gospel message, and precisely that half -which Christ emphasized. We slur it over, and do not perceive its import when we read the Bible. Having eyes we see not, having ears we hear not, the true tests of Christianity. Herein is revealed the marvelous nature of Christianity. All religions exalt a superior being, or at any rate profess to exalt a superior being, but as we have already seen it is a distinctive feature of...
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