Stevenson Blackwood

Author of Shadow and Substance (1871)

(On The Blood of the Lamb)
"The life of the lamb was that which was accepted instead of the life of the firstborn of Israel, which were by reason of sin, justly exposed to the condemnation that fell on the firstborn of Egypt.  When He looked, therefore, at the door-posts, and saw the blood there, He could tell that death had been there already.  Now, the sentence against the soul that sinneth is death ; but if death has taken place, what more sentence is there?  "There is NO CONDEMNATION to them that are in Christ Jesus."  They have died, for Christ died for them." (The Shadow and the Substance, p. 18)

"And here we have the Lord's Supper as a type of doctrine.  St. Paul, you know, calls baptism "a form," or, as it is in the original, "a type, of doctrine," (Rom. vi. 16) that is, it is a figure which represents certain truths.  Baptism is a type, and it represents what?  Death and resurrection with Christ.   So also the Lord's Supper is a type of doctrine ; the doctrine of union with Christ by feeding upon Him, and in that sense it is a very blessed type.  It shows forth this - that just as you eat that bread which, as you read in the Psalms, "strengtheneth man's heart," and drink that wine which "maketh glad the heart of man," so by faith do you receive into your souls the Lord Jesus Christ, not that you receive Him in the Lord's Supper, but that that Supper is the token of a reception of Him, which has already taken place.  It is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual truth -- the truth that you "feed upon Christ by faith in your heart with thanksgiving," and that Jesus, being received into your soul, becomes your life, your strength, your sustenance ; just as the bread and wine strengthens you for service and for work, so Jesus received into the heart strengthens you for the service of God."  (The Shadow and the Substance, p. 92)