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title: 'Samuel Bayard on the Gift of the Lord’s Supper'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-06-03
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-samuel-bayard-on-the-gift-of-the-lords-supper
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# Samuel Bayard on the Gift of the Lord’s Supper

“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**](/authors/samuel-bayard), *Letters on the Sacrament of the Lord*’*s Supper* (1822), p. 123