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1 The Sickness in sin is double, according to the cause, which is a defect either of right believing, or straight living, a debility of confidence, a sterility of good works: lack of faith, wrack of charity. These effects (or rather defects) are produced by two errors in our Souls diet: the one excessive, the other deficient, 1. By Fasting too much from Christ, 2. By feeding too much on the world. In what we should affect, we are abstinent, in what avoid, very indulgent.

1 The Sicknesse in sinne is double, according to the cause, which is a defect either of right belieuing, or straight liuing, a debility of confidence, a sterility of good works: lacke of faith, wracke of charity. These effects (or rather defects) are produced by two errors in our Soules diet: the one excessiue, the other deficient, 1. By Fasting too much from Christ, 2. By feeding too much on the world. In what wee should affect, we are abstinent, in what auoide, very indulgent.

1 The first cause is,¹ by forbearing that sacred meat, living and life giving bread, which came down from heaven, to translate thither those that eat it. This is the Son of the most high God, not disdaining to become the food of the affamished sons of men. ^aOut of the strong came sweetness: the mighty is become meat: the Lyon of Judah yields honey, such as never came out of any earthly Hive, He is our invincible Captain, to him we supplicate (as distressed Nerva to Trajan.) Telis Phoebe tuis lachrimas ulciscere nostras. Oh Saviour defend and keep us, yet he that is (Victor) a conqueror for us, is also (victus) food to us. But this is (Cibus non dentis sedmentis) meat for our faith,³ not for our teeth, manducaemus intus non foris, We eat it inwardly, not outwardly. Christ is verily (panis verus, non panismerus) true, not mere natural bread. Thus our Feeder is become our Food, our Physician, our Medicine. He doth all things for us, guide, feed, mediate, medicate: let us meditate on him, and not disappoint the intention of his mercies by our averseness. No hope but in him, no help but by him. The Law could not satisfy our hunger (not through it own, but our insufficiency) the Gospel gives not only present satisfaction; but even impossibility of future