The New Life

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The Lord's Supper.
the pledge that the Lord will also change our body
of humiliation and make it like His own glorified
body by the working whereby He subdues all things
to Himself. It is not simply because all that is corporeal
is more clear and intelligible for us, that the
Lord gives Himself in the bread of the Supper. No :
by the body, Scripture often understands the whole
man. In the Supper, Christ would take possession
of the whole man, body and soul, to renew and sanctify
it by the power of His holy body and blood.
Bven His body shares in His glory : even His body
is communicated by the Holy Spirit. Bven our body
is fed with His holy body, and renewed by the working
of the Holy Spirit.^
This feeding with the body of Christ takes place,
on the side of the Lord by the Spirit, on our side
by faith. On the side of the Lord by the Spirit
for the Spirit communicates to us the power of the
glorified body, whereby even our bodies, according
to Scripture, become members of His body.^
The Spirit gives us to drink of the life-power of
His blood, so that that blood becomes the life
and the joy of our soul. The bread is a participation
in the body: the cup is a participation in the
blood.
And this takes place on our side by faith : a
faith that, above what can be seen or understood,
reckons on the wonder-working power of the Holy
Spirit to unite us really, alike in soul and body.
1 Matt. xxvi. 26
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John vi. 54, 55 Rom. ;
•i Cor. vi. 15, 17, xii. 13 ;
Eph. v. 23, 30.
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viii. 11, 13.