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title: 'Samuel Davies: The Lord’s Supper is a “Token of Love”'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2026-01-05
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2026-samuel-davies-the-lords-supper-is-a-token-of-love
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# Samuel Davies: The Lord’s Supper is a “Token of Love”

“Hence it is evident this ordinance was appointed as a memorial of a suffering Saviour; and it is under this notion that we are particularly to remember him. We are to *show the Lord*'*s death*, says the apostle; his death which was the consummation of his sufferings, *till he come again* to visit our world in a very different and glorious manner.

The Lord’s supper in this view is to be looked upon as a token of love, or memorial left by a friend at parting among his friends, that whenever they see it they may remember him. Our Lord knew we shoul be very apt to forget him; and, therefore, that the memory of his sufferings might never be lost, he instituted this ordinance; and by the humble elements of bread and wine, he represents himself to our senses as broken under the burden of his sufferings, and shedding his blood.” — [**Samuel Davies**](/authors/samuel-davies), “The Christian Feast” in *Sermons*, Vol. 2 (1864), p. 145