In Michael Tutor's sermon on the 1689 SLBC Chapter 30, Paragraph 4, he discusses the fallibility of confessions as man-made documents, emphasizing that they reflect biblical teachings but contain errors. He highlights three practices contrary to the biblical example of the Lord's Supper: the denial of the cup to the people, originating from medieval Catholic practices due to superstitions and concerns over the wine's sanctity; the worshipping of the elements, equated to idolatry, as people adored the bread and wine believing they transformed into Christ's body and blood; and the reserving of elements for pretended religious uses, such as selling communion for reducing time in purgatory, which deviates from Christ's intended purpose. Tutor underscores the need to adhere strictly to the pattern Christ set for the Lord's Supper, focusing on remembrance rather than ritualistic alterations.

So, when we look at the confession, it's not the scriptures. It is written by men. I think we need to remember that, that it's, so it's fallible. It has errors in it, but it is a good summary or reflection of what we believe the Bible teaches. So, I think this paragraph is primarily listing some practices that the authors believe are in contradiction to the example in Scripture and what Christ instituted when he gave us the Lord's Supper.

The first thing In the paragraph is the denial of the cup to the people, which when I first looked at this, I was thinking of the practice of church discipline and holding someone back from the table when they've been excommunicated or something like that. But as I was reading about it, actually that's talked about in paragraph eight, this denial of the cup, is not denying them from the table altogether, but it's a practice that, I think it was like the 11 hundreds and 12 hundreds, some of the priests in the Catholic Church would not let people drink the wine because they believed it was actually Christ's blood. They were worried partially that people would spill his blood on the floor because they're clumsy and then also people would sneak the wine home either because it had alcohol in it or because they're superstitious and they thought they could get some blessing from it. So some of the priests started keeping the wine back and only letting people have the bread. So I think that's what this is actually written in response to.

This is obviously not what we see when Christ originally gave the disciples the Lord's Supper. The wine and the bread were together, and in every example I can find in the scripture, it's always both. That's the Lord's Supper, it's not just the bread. Each time it's mentioned, it's drink and eat together. The second thing mentioned is worshipping of the elements, lifting them up or carrying them about for adoration This would be a form of idolatry really.

It's Something that again comes I think mainly from the Catholic Church probably where it started where they would basically worship the bread and that is also because they believed it became the blood and body of Christ in Exodus 24 what the Asa just read that should not make under the any graven image or any likeness of anything that's in heaven above, that's in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. And in verse 5, thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children under the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. When Christ gave us the bread and the wine, he said, take it in remembrance of him. And it should be pointing us to Christ to remind us of the gift he gave so we worship him as we eat and drink, not focusing on the bread and the wine itself, but on him.

Then the third thing mentioned is reserving the elements for any pretended religious use. I'm not sure exactly what the pretended religious use could be. I suppose It's a big range of things. I think one example from history is priests selling the elements as a form of payment for sins. Like people could buy communion and then when they ate it, they supposedly could get time taken off of their purgatory, whatever, so they didn't have to suffer so much in hell or purgatory.

And there's a lot of other ways we could use it for something that Christ did not intend. And this is Matthew 15, nine, says, "'But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. This is just reminding us that we need to not be taking the communion and turning it into something that it's not. It's pretty clear what Christ gave it to us for. And we need to continue in the same pattern that Christ instituted when he gave it to us.

I think that's really all I had on that paragraph.