10. Of the Holy Supper

We also confess and observe the breaking of bread, or Supper, as the Lord Christ Jesus, before His suffering, instituted it with bread and wine, and observed and ate it with His apostles, commanding them to observe it in remembrance of Him; which they accordingly taught and practiced in the church, and commanded that it should be kept in remembrance of the suffering and death of the Lord; and that His precious body was broken, and His blood shed, for us and all mankind, as also the fruits of this, namely, redemption and eternal salvation, which He purchased by it, showing such great love toward us sinful men; by which we are admonished to the utmost, to love and forgive one another and our neighbor, as He has done to us, and to be mindful to maintain and live up to the unity and fellowship which we have with God and one another, which is signified to us by this breaking of bread. Matthew 26, verse 26; Mark 14, verse 22; Acts 2, verse 42; First Corinthians 10, verse 16; First Corinthians 11, verse 23.