The Lord's Supper

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Excerpt from The Lord's Supper: The Continued Feast on the One Completed SacrificeCome. The trial, the judgment, and the death, were the processes of a mistaken observance of human laws, and Roman soldiers compassed the death of the Victim. Yet all Holy Scrip ture points to the death of our Lord as a sacri fice. Jesus Christ offered Himself, offered His life for the sins of the whole world, and His life was taken. As often occurs in the world's his tory, the wickedness and weakness of men were made to be the instruments for carrying out God's plans. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have cru cified and slain (acts ii. The sacrifice was made. The making, the performing of the sacrifice, so far as the crucifixion is concerned, was the work of the Roman soldiers - the offer ing of Himself for the sacrifice was Christ's own propitiatory offering.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.