Exposition

The questions which claim our special attention in treating the Lord’s supper, are these:
I. What is the Lord’s supper?
II. What is the design of it?
III. In what does it differ from, baptism?
IV. What is the meaning of the words of the institution?
V. What difference is there between the Lord’s supper, and the Popish mass, and why the mass is to be abolished?
VI. In what does the lawful use of the Lord’s supper consist?
VII. What do the ungodly receive in the use of the Lord’s Supper?
VIII. For whom was it instituted?
IX. Who are to be admitted to this Supper?
 
The first three of the above propositions belong to the 75th and 76th Questions of the Catechism; the fourth belongs to the 80th; the sixth, seventh, and eighth belong to the 81st; and the ninth to the 82nd, and will be treated in order under each of these questions.