Romans922
Puritan Board Professor
I am studying for my Session a series of common questions dealing with the Lord's Supper. Thus, I am looking for resources to see Biblically moreso than historically the practice of the Lord's Supper.
My questions relate to:
1) Administration (Besides Institution and Prayer, is there anything specifically in the actual administration that needs to be changed (changed from what is found in common American Presbyterianism?)
2) Frequency (How often should we administer the Lord's Supper?)
3) Elements (Should/must we use leavened/unleavened bread; wine/grape juice?)
4) Actions (Eating/Drinking; Should it be more individual or more like a celebration? Should there be a table that people gather around? Should it be a feast rather than what often occurs in American worship? What does this look like practically?)
So as I am looking for sources an example for #2 would be the Directory of Publick Worship where it refers to the frequency. I am not looking for books so much so on the meaning of the Lord's Supper, but books, articles, confessions that deal with these questions. Please keep it in the realm of Reformed Presbyterianism.
My questions relate to:
1) Administration (Besides Institution and Prayer, is there anything specifically in the actual administration that needs to be changed (changed from what is found in common American Presbyterianism?)
2) Frequency (How often should we administer the Lord's Supper?)
3) Elements (Should/must we use leavened/unleavened bread; wine/grape juice?)
4) Actions (Eating/Drinking; Should it be more individual or more like a celebration? Should there be a table that people gather around? Should it be a feast rather than what often occurs in American worship? What does this look like practically?)
So as I am looking for sources an example for #2 would be the Directory of Publick Worship where it refers to the frequency. I am not looking for books so much so on the meaning of the Lord's Supper, but books, articles, confessions that deal with these questions. Please keep it in the realm of Reformed Presbyterianism.
One might ask with all the online versions why do yet a second hardbound version? In retrospect 20 years later, I decided I didn't do as good a job as I thought in 1993 (which is still a nice edition, has all the Latin translated, and has a big typeface), and the 2013 is a revised critical edition (1000 references researched, tracked, verified, translations rechecked, more added, table of errata of all editions including the first, ...). For a casual reading the freebie texts are 'okay' (the 19th century text does have a lot of errors), but if you really want to study EPC, the new edition has as many helps as I could think of to aid that. 
