p. 62 | Well Answered

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1868

Well Answered.

WHEN Dr. Feckenham was commissioned to visit Lady Jane Gray, and prevail upon her to adopt the Roman Catholic Faith, the amiable, intelligent Protestant queen replied to the question, “Do you not in the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper receive the very body and blood of Christ?” “No, surely I do not so believe. I think that, at the Supper, I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and which wine when it is drunken, putteth me in remembrance how that, for my sins, the body of Christ was broken and his blood shed upon the cross; and with that bread and wine I receive the benefits that come by the breaking of His body and shedding His blood for our sins on the cross.”

And when the Doctor again asked, “Are not these words, ‘Take, eat, this is my body,’ the words of Christ?” her excellent reply was: “I grant, He saith so, and so He saith, I am the vine, I am the door! but He is never more the door or the vine. I pray you to answer me this one question: Where was Christ when He said, ‘Take, eat, this is My body?’ Was He not at the table when He said so? He was at that time alive, and suffered not till the next day. What took He but bread? What brake He but bread? Look, what He took he brake; and look, what He brake He gave; and look, what He gave they did eat. And yet at this time He himself was alive and at Supper before His disciples.”