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Robert Bruce on the Reception of Jesus in the Eucharist

Will Nielsen
October 13th, 2007
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In light of the post a few days back on The Role of the Eucharist in the Sanctification of the Christian, I found a great article by Dr. Craig Higgins, Sr Pastor of Trinity Church PCA in Rye, New York. I commend the article, Spiritual Formation and the Lord’s Supper: Remembering, Receiving, Sharing (Summer 2006, Vol 24, No 3, pp 71-78), to you and wanted to share an insightful quote from Robert Bruce, the Scottish Reformation era pastor on the nature of Christ received in the Eucharist:

It is certainly true that we get no new thing in the Sacrament; we get no other thing in the Sacrament, than we get in the Word. For what more would you ask that really to receive the Son of God himself? Your heart can neither desire nor imagine a greater gift than the Son of God, who is King of heaven and earth…. Why then is the Sacrament appointed? Not that you may get any new thing, but that you may get the same thing better than you had it in the Word. (Robert Bruce)

HT: Paul Buckley at Words, Words, Words for directing me to this article and to Pastor Craig for writing it.

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