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. Author of "Pastoral Counsels," "Some Chief Truths of Religion, London AUC 'R2 WELLS GARDNER, DARTONE & CO. PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS. 138. i. b55 655. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE FALL AND THE REDEMPTION. In the Fall man alienated from God, God alienated PAGE ix PAGE Ever since the Fall only one religion-faith in the for- giveness of sin through the sacrifice of Christ. The great act of this religion was always the symbolical representation of Christ's sacrifice, pleading Christ's merits for the forgiveness of sin. Before Christ's sacrifice this representation of it was by the sacrifice of slain beasts. God taught Adam the rite of sacrifice after the Fall. THE GREAT ACT OF RELIGION UNDER THE MOSAIC The tabernacle service. Solomon's temple. The fire of the altar came down from heaven, kept ever burning. The offering of incense. The THE GREAT ACT OF RELIGION UNDER THE CHRISTIAN On the eve of the great sacrifice of Christ, He ap- pointed henceforward a new symbolical repre- sentation of it- the broken bread and wine poured out. The institution. The breaking of the bread at once appears as the great act of Christian worship; at Jerusalem; Troas; Corinth. Continued always to be so. THE SACRAMENTAL SYSTEM. Argument for the existence of the supernatural. * |