That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed This was not a device of his, nor an invention of any man's, nor did he receive the account from men, no not from the apostles but he had it by revelation from Christ, either when he appeared to him at his first conversion, and made him a minister of the Gospel or when he was caught up into the third heaven, and heard things unspeakable and unutterable:įor whatever he received from Christ, whether a doctrine or an ordinance, he faithfully delivered to the churches, from whom he kept back nothing that was profitable, but declared the whole counsel of God unto them: now this he refers the Corinthians to, as a sure rule to go by, and from which they should never swerve and whatever stands on divine record as received from Christ, and delivered by his apostles, should be the rule of our faith and practice, and such only
The divine authority of the Lord's supper is here expressed it was not only instituted by him as Lord, having all power and authority in and over his churches, to appoint what ordinances he pleases but the plan and form of administration of it were received from him by the apostle. The apostle observes unto them the rule, use, and end of the Lord's supper his view in it is, to correct the disorders among them, and to bring them to a strict regard to the rule which had such a divine authority stamped upon it and to observe to them, that in that supper all equally ate and drank and that the end of it was not a paschal commemoration, but a remembrance of Christ, and a declaration of his sufferings and death.
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