WHAT FAMOUS
THEOLOGIANS HAD TO SAY ABOUT
LORD’S SUPPER / COMMUNION
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About 1536 - JOHN CALVIN - REFORMED
CHURCHES - "And truly this custom,
which enjoins communicating once a year, is a most evident contrivance of the
Devil, by whose instrumentality soever it may have been determined....Every
week, at least, the table of the Lord should have been spread for christian
assemblies, and the promises declared by which in partaking of it we might be
spiritually fed" (Institutions Book 4, chap. 17, sect. 46;
and Book 6, chap. 18, sect. 56) |
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About 1775 - JOHN WESLEY - METHODIST
- "If we are not obliged to communicate constantly, by what argument
can it be proved that we are obliged to communicate frequently? Yeah, more than once a year? Or once in seven years? Or once before we die?"(106th
Sermon, Vol. III, on Luke 22:19, "The Duty of Constant
Communion"). |
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About 1800 - JOHN MASON -
PRESBYTERIAN - "It is evidence [Acts
20:7] not only that Christians assembled on the Lord's day for public
worship, but that they did not part without commemorating his
death....sacramental communion was a principal, if not the principal object
of their meeting" (Letters on Frequent Communion, Edinburgh
Edition of 1799, pg. 34-42) |
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