THE

BREAKING OF THE BREAD

AN EXPLANATION OF

THE HOLY COMMUNION,

WITH

Notes on the Communion Service.

BY THE

REV. EDWARD L. CUTTS, B.A.,
HON. D.D., UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH U.S.
Author of "Pastoral Counsels," "Some Chief Truths of Religion,
Turning Points of English Church History," &c.

New York:

JAMES POTT & CO., PUBLISHERS.

1887.

LIBRARY OF THE

Union Theological Seminary

NEW YORK CITY
PRESENTED BY Laming

Parmelee Reed from the Ribrary of
Edward Allen Reed,

JUL 20 1933

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I.

THE FALL AND THE REDEMPTION.

In the Fall man alienated from God, God alienated
from man. Man incapable of making atonement
for his sin, or of restoring his corrupted nature.
God provided a remedy in the incarnation and
sacrifice of the Son of God, making atonement
for sin, and giving grace to human nature. Man,
penitent, restores his trust and love to God;
God, reconciled, restores grace and blessing to
man. Our repentance, faith, and obedience
habitual, God's pardon and grace habitual; but
God has ordained occasional acts of religion
in which we express our feelings towards Him,
and He makes these acts of religion the
channels of His grace to us. The great act of
religion is a symbolical representation of the

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