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This is He, that once ^hsuffered for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He suffered our sins, the cause most odious: the just for the unjust, the persons most unequal, that he might bring us to God, the end most absolute How well then may we yield (and if there might b• any pride or glory in us, it should be in our sufferings) to suffer for him. The ⁱApostles did so rejoicing, O Jesus, S• adeo dulce est st•re pro•e, quam dulce erit ⟨p. 70⟩gaudere de te? Oh Christ, if it be so happy to suffer for thee, what will it be to rejoice in thee? It cost him much, (oh how much!) trouble, sorrow, beating, grinding, before he became bread for us. There may be a scarcity of other bread, there is none of this, to those that rightly seek it. It is dear in regard of the preciousness (they that have it will not part with it) not dear in regard of the price we pay nothing for it, but faith and love. Though thousands pray at once with the Disciples. ^kLord evermore give us this bread (Josephs ^lmay) Jesus his store-house can never be emptied, Least the world perish through famine. He onely (nec accipiendo proficit; nec dando deficit) grows not rich with receiving, neither grows poor with giving. Rejoice then, Beloved, in done, in Domino. The Lord is the giver, the Lord is the gift. Let not your souls be starved w•th those inferior things, which are (pauca, parua prava) few in number, small in measure, bad in nature, ^mWhiles there is bread enough in your Fathers house. Why should we sicken •ur spirits in a voluntary want; and fast from that which is able to feast a world of faithful guests. This is the first degree of our spiritual sickness.