Question 77

Where hath Christ promised, that he will as certainely giue his bodie and bloude so to bee eaten and dronken, as they eate this breade broken, and drinke this cup?

In the institution of his supper; the wordes whereof are these: Our Lord Jesus Christ in the night that he was betraied, tooke bread. And when he had giuen thankes, he brake it, and said, Take, eate, this is my bodie which is broken for you: this doe you in remembrance of me. Likewise also he tooke the cup when he had supped, and saide,^a This cup is the Newe Testament in my bloud:^b this doe as often as yee shall drinke it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye shal eat this bread and drinke this cup, ye shewe the Lordes death till he come. This promise is repeated by Saint Paul, when he saith: The cup of thankesgiuing, wherewith we giue thankes, is it not the Communion of the bloud of Christ? The bread which we breake, is it not the communion of the bodie of Christ?^c For wee that are manie are one bread and one bodie, because wee all are partakers of one bread.^d