The Baptist Catechism

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Westminster Assembly

    Question 96

    What is the Lord’s Supper?

    The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.a

    What is the Lord’s Supper?

    The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.a

    1. a. 1 Corinthians 11:23–26; 1 Corinthians 10:16

      1 Corinthians 11:23–26

      11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.

      11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread, 11:24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me." 11:25 In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me." 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.

      1 Corinthians 10:16

      10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

      10:16 Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?

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    Changes in The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 102

    The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 102

    What is the Lord’s supper?

    The Lord’s supper is a sacrament, an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s his appointment, his death is showed shown forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 96

    What is the Lord’s Supper?

    The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.

    The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 102

    What is the Lord’s supper?

    The Lord’s supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shown forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.

    The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 102

    What is the Lord’s supper?

    The Lord’s supper is a sacrament, an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s his appointment, his death is showed shown forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (modernized) (1647), Question 96

    What is the Lord’s Supper?

    The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.

    The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 102

    What is the Lord’s supper?

    The Lord’s supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shown forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.

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    Westminster Larger Catechism (1647), parallel to this question

    Question 168

    What is the Lord’s supper?

    The Lord’s supper is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to the appointment of Jesus Christ, his death is showed forth; and they that worthily communicate feed upon his body and blood, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace; have their union and communion with him confirmed; testify and renew their thankfulness, and engagement to God, and their mutual love and fellowship each with other, as members of the same mystical body.

    Question 169

    How hath Christ appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the sacrament of the Lord’s supper?

    Christ hath appointed the ministers of his word, in the administration of this sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, to set apart the bread and wine from common use, by the word of institution, thanksgiving, and prayer; to take and break the bread, and to give both the bread and the wine to the communicants: who are, by the same appointment, to take and eat the bread, and to drink the wine, in thankful remembrance that the body of Christ was broken and given, and his blood shed, for them.

    Question 170

    How do they that worthily communicate in the Lord’s supper feed upon the body and blood of Christ therein?

    As the body and blood of Christ are not corporally or carnally present in, with, or under the bread and wine in the Lord’s supper, and yet are spiritually present to the faith of the receiver, no less truly and really than the elements themselves are to their outward senses; so they that worthily communicate in the sacrament of the Lord’s supper, do therein feed upon the body and blood of Christ, not after a corporal and carnal, but in a spiritual manner; yet truly and really, while by faith they receive and apply unto themselves Christ crucified, and all the benefits of his death.

    Commentaries (9)

    • Joseph Alleine, 1672, A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism

      What is the Lords Supper? The Lords Supper is a Sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving Bread and Wine according to Christs appointment, his death is she wed forth; and the…

      Joseph Alleine’s text

    • Thomas Lye, 1672, The Assemblies Shorter Catechism Drawn out into Distinct Propositions

      What is the Lords Supper? The Lords Supper is a Sacrament wherein by giving and receiving Bread and Wine, according to Christs appointment, his death is shewed forth, and the…

      Thomas Lye’s text

    • Thomas Vincent, 1673, An Explicatory Catechism

      What is the Lords Supper? The Lords Supper is a Sacrament wherein by giving and receiving Bread and Wine according to Christ’s appointment, his death is shewed forth, and the…

      Thomas Vincent’s text

    • 1675, An Explicatory Catechism

      What is the Lords Supper? The Lords Supper is a Sacrament wherein by giving and receiving Bread and Wine according to Christs appointment, his Death is shewed forth, and the…

      Its text

    • John Flavel, 1692, An Exposition of the Assembly’s Catechism (2 parts)

      What is the Lords Supper? The Lords Supper is a Sacrament, wherein by giving and receiving Bread and Wine according to Christs appointment, his Death is shewed forth; and the…

      John Flavel’s text

    • Thomas Watson, 1692, A Body of Practical Divinity (2 parts)

      Mark XIV.24. And as they did Eat, Jesus took Bread, &c. Secondly, Having spoken of the Sacrament of Baptism, I come now to the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is…

      Thomas Watson’s text

    • Matthew Henry, 1703, A Scripture Catechism

      What is the Lord’s Supper? The Lord’s Supper is a Sacrament, wherein by giving and receiving Bread and Wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his Death is shewed forth, and the…

      Matthew Henry’s text

    • Alexander Whyte, 1883, A Commentary on the Shorter Catechism

      The Lord’s Supper—The second sacrament of the New Testament has several names given to it in Scripture according to the way it is looked at, and according to the feature in this…

      Alexander Whyte’s text

    • Benjamin Beddome, 1752, A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism

      On The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 102, which adapts this question

      Is the Lord’s supper of divine appointment? Yes. It was received of the Lord, Is bread to be used in this ordinance? Yes. For he took bread, Must the elements be blessed? Yes. The…

      Benjamin Beddome’s text