Tertullian’s The Resurrection of the Dead [8,2] A.D. 208-212:
The flesh, then, is washed, so that the soul may be made clean. The flesh is anointed, so that the soul may be dedicated to holiness. The flesh is signed, so that the soul too may be fortified. The flesh is shaded with the imposition of hands, so that the soul too may be illuminated by the Spirit. The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ, so that the soul too may fatten on God. They cannot, then, be separated in their reward, when they are united in their works.
Tertullian [ca. 200/206 AD] in his treaties on Prayer [6,2], quotes John 6 in connection with a spiritual understanding of the Lord’s prayer “give us this day our daily bread.” In a spiritual sense Christ is our daily Bread, presumably because of the practice of the daily reception of the Eucharist.
Later in that same treatise [19,1] he writes;
Likewise, regard to days of fast, many do not think they should be present at the sacrificial prayers, because their fast would be broken if they were to receive the Body of the Lord. Does the Eucharist, then, obviate a work devoted to God, or does it bind it more to god? Will not your fast be more solemn if, in addition, you have stood at God’s altar? The body of the Lord having been received and reserved, each point is secured: both the participation in the sacrifice and the discharge of duty.
Regarding worship on the Lord’s Day Tertullian also writes; [The Crown [3,4] AD 211]:
We take anxious care lest something of our Cup of Bread should fall upon the ground
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THIS IS WHAT TERTULLIAN HAD TO SAY ON THE EUCHARIST, TALKING ABOUT “RECEIVING THE BODY OF THE LORD AND THE SACRIFICE. SOUNDS LIKE A BAPTIST TO ME!
TERTULLIAN WAS NOT AN APOSTLE. WHAT TERTULLIAN HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE SUBJECT WAS HIS OWN THOUGHTS AND MUSINGS. WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS IS WHAT MATTERS AND WHAT MUST BE OBEYED.
Was Augustine wrong when he spoke of receiving Christ by faith was eating and drinking of him? Was the Bible wrong when it says by grace we are saved through faith and that not of ourselves, not of works, lest any one should boast?