Reference: Sacraments
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SACRAMENTS
1. The term.
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Then as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessing, brake, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
And I tell you, That I will no more henceforth drink of this produce of the vine, until that day when I drink it with you, new, in the kingdom of my Father.
Go therefore, make disciples among all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
They therefore who gladly received his discourse were baptised: and there were added to them that day about three thousand souls. And they persevered stedfastly in the doctrine of the apostles, and in communion, and in breaking bread, and in prayers.
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.
BUT I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; read more. and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them; but that rock was Christ.
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew forth the death of the Lord till he come.
This mystery is great: but I am speaking with regard to Christ, and with regard to the church.
in whom also ye have been circumcised with the circumcision not made with hands, by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ: