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 That it "is a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another."

How is it so?

Because they all partake together of the same food.

Show that this intended to be the meaning of it.

1 Cor. x. 19, compared with xii. 26. St. Paul teaches those who communicate herein that, inasmuch as they are "all partakers in that one bread," they are "one body;" and that in a body "if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it, or if one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it."

How does this answer to the account of Sacraments in Article XXV. that they are "tokens of Christian men's profession?"

Christians profess to be parts of the same body, and children of the same Father.

But what is this Sacrament besides and beyond this?

It is "a Sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death."

In what sense is the word here used?

To signify "an sign" of divine appointment. See Article XXV. It is therefore a memorial of the sacrifice of Christ's death, effectual to our redemption. Compare 1 Cor. xi. 26; Gal. iii. 1.

What then is the effect of the Sacrament on those who rightly partake in it?