The Practice of Piety

When thou eatest the bread, imagine that thou seest Christ hanging upon the Cross, and by his unspeakable torments, fully satisfying Gods justice for thy sins and strive to be as verily partaker of the spiritual grace, as of the elemental signs. For the truth is not absent from the sign, neither doth Christ deceive, when he saith, This is my body, but he giveth himself indeed to every soul that spiritually receives him by faith. For as ours is the same Supper which Christ administered: so is the same Christ verily present at his own Supper, not by any Papal ^*Transubstantiation, ⟨p. 763⟩but by a Sacramental participation, ²whereby he doth truly feed the faithful unto eternal life: not by coming down out of heaven unto thee; but by lifting thee up from the earth unto him. According to that old saying, Sursum corda. Lift up your hearts, and where the carcass is thither will the Eagles res••t. Mat. 24

When thou eatest the bread, imagine that thou seest Christ hanging vpon the Crosse, and by his vnspeakeable torments, fully satisfying Gods iustice for thy sinnes and striue to be as verily pertaker of the spirituall grace, as of the elementall signes. For the truth is not absent from the signe, neither doth Christ deceiue, when he saith, This is my body, but he giueth himselfe indeede to euery soule that spiritually receiues him by faith. For as ours is the same Supper which Christ administred: so is the same Christ verily present at his owne Supper, not by any Papall ^*Transubstantiation, ⟨p. 763⟩but by a Sacramentall participation, ²whereby he doth truly feede the faithfull vnto eternall life: not by comming downe out of heauen vnto thee; but by lifting thee vp from the earth vnto him. According to that old saying, Sursum corda. Lift vp your hearts, and where the carkase is thither will the Eagles rest.