THE THIRTEENTH PROPOSITION.

Concerning the Communion, or Participation of the Body and Blood of Christ.

The communion, of the body and blood of Christ is inward and spiritual, ¹⁹¹⁹1 Cor. x. 16, 17. which is the participation of his flesh and blood, by which the inward man ²⁰²⁰John vi. 32, 33, 35., 1 Cor. v. 8. is daily nourished in the hearts of those in whom Christ dwells; of which things the breaking of bread by Christ with his disciples was a figure, which they even used in the church for a time, who had received the substance, for the cause of the weak; even as abstaining from things strangled and from blood; the washing one another's feet; and the anointing of the sick with oil; all which are commanded with no less authority and solemnity than the former; yet seeing they are but the shadows of better things, they cease in such as have obtained the substance. ²¹²¹ Acts xv. 20., John xiii. 14, James v. 14