TRINITY i
'THIS is my body', said Christ at the Supper, and it was
so. He is well able to consecrate bread, for he speaks the word of
God. The world itself only exists because God said that it should
be, and it was so. Christ has consecrated bread, and it is consecrated;
his consecration takes effect upon our altars. But why should he
consecrate bread? Only that the consecration of the bread might extend,
and embrace the company which partakes of the bread. 'This is my
body' he declares, and it is his body. We receive it, and
we are his body, signed, sealed, consecrated by the word which made
the world.
