“What infinite love does the Saviour manifest to his people, in remembering them in the midst of the agonies of the cross; in making such a glorious provision for their necessities, that, as he had offered himself once for all, a sacrifice and oblation not to be repeated; that he should permit them as it were, to feast continually on that sacrifice in a spiritual manner; by adopting bread and wine, not as his body and blood, which in itself would have been impossible; but as striking memorials of them, that being spiritually received, they should have all the efficacy of actually eating the sacrifice, and thereby should become a blessed ‘feast of fat things,’ to the nourishment and growth in grace of all his servants in this vale of tears: and moreover should show forth his death to a guilty world, till his second coming in glory.” — Samuel Bayard, Letters on the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper (1822), p. 123