# “The delight of the Lord’s Supper” by John Calvin

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- Published: 2011-02-02T12:00:20-06:00
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“Pious souls can derive great confidence and delight from this sacrament, as being
a testimony that they form one body with Christ, so that everything which is His
they may call their own.

Hence it follows that we can confidently assure ourselves that eternal life, of 
which He Himself is the heir, is ours, and that the kingdom of heaven, into which
He has entered, can no more be taken from us than from Him; on the other hand, that
we cannot be condemned for our sins, from the guilt of which He absolves us, seeing
He has been pleased that these should be imputed to Himself as if they were His 
own.

This is the wondrous exchange made by His boundless goodness. Having become with
us the Son of Man, He has made us with Himself sons of God. By His own descent to
the earth He has prepared our ascent to heaven. Having received our mortality, He
has bestowed on us His immortality.

Having undertaken our weakness, He has made us strong in His strength. Having submitted
to our poverty, He has transferred to us His riches. Having taken upon Himself the
burden of unrighteousness with which we were oppressed, He has clothed us with His
righteousness.”

–John Calvin, _[Institutes of the Christian Religion](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1598561685?tag=toletaupanre-20)_,
trans. Henry Beveridge (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), [4.17.2](http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.vi.xviii.html).

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