Instruments of Christ

They are like carriers or instruments whereby the very body and blood of Christ are exhibited or offered to everyone, but bestowed upon and given to believers, and consumed by those who have faith-for that is the innate property of the sacrament. It is with such wording that the apostle says: "the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe" [Rom 1:17], and "the bread which we break"-that is, the breaking and eating of the bread-"is the communion of the body of Christ" [1 Cor 10:16].

 

Synopsis of a Purer Theology, V2 William Den Boer and Riemer A Faber (Landrum, SC: Davenant press, 2023), 602