{"id":636,"date":"2010-03-23T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2010-03-23T06:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T10:21:00","slug":"communion-with-christ-and-with-the-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Communion with Christ and with the Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Communion with Christ and with the Saints&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Watts<\/p>\n<p>Jesus invites His saints<br \/>To meet around His board;<br \/>Here pardoned rebels sit and hold<br \/>Communion with their Lord.<\/p>\n<p>For food He gives His flesh,<br \/>He bids us drink His blood;<br \/>Amazing favor, matchless grace<br \/>Of our descending God!<\/p>\n<p>This holy bread and wine<br \/>Maintains our fainting breath,<br \/>By union with our Living Lord,<br \/>And interest in His death.<\/p>\n<p>Our heavenly Father calls<br \/>Christ and His members one;<br \/>We, the young children of His love,<br \/>And He, the firstborn Son.<\/p>\n<p>We are but several parts<br \/>Of the same broken bread;<br \/>One body hath its several limbs,<br \/>But Jesus is the Head.<\/p>\n<p>Let all our powers be joined<br \/>His glorious name to raise;<br \/>Pleasure and love fill every mind,<br \/>And every voice be praise.<\/p>\n<p>Quoted in <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Worthy-Lamb-Puritan-Poetry-Christ\/dp\/1573581593?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\">Worthy Is the Lamb: Puritan Poetry in Honor of Christ<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1573581593\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;\" width=\"1\" \/><\/span><br \/>Maureen Bradley; Edited by Don Kistler and Joel Rishel (page 238)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Communion with Christ and with the Saints&#8221; Isaac Watts Jesus invites His saintsTo meet around His board;Here pardoned rebels sit and holdCommunion with their Lord. For food He gives His flesh,He bids us drink His blood;Amazing favor, matchless graceOf our descending God! This holy bread and wineMaintains our fainting breath,By union with our Living Lord,And &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Communion with Christ and with the Saints&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}