Q, Does Man Make a Covenant in the Sacraments?
A. If he does, he is lost; for he will certainly fail, and there can be no consequence of failure (for it is sin) but condemnation; for man's entering into a covenant is not grace—the grace of God. I account Baptism and the Lord's Supper to be precious institutions of the Lord Jesus—one as admitting publicly in the kingdom on the principle of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ; the other, spiritual fellowship of His death in the unity of His body, as sitting by grace in heavenly places. But talking of making a covenant with God is total ignorance of the place we are in as Christians. What do such as so talk think of redemption? Where is a word found in Scripture about a covenant in connection with the Lord's Supper, The whole Christian position is therein lost, and we are put simply where a Jew under the law was—and worse; because he was placed there that we might learn that we could not possibly stand there.