The Practice of Piety

As thou feelest the Sacramental Wine which thou hast drunk, warming thy cold stomach: so endeavour to feel the Holy Ghost cherishing thy soul in the joyful assurance of the forgiveness of all thy sins, by the merits of the blood of Christ. And to this end God giveth every faithful soul together with the Sacramental blood, the holy Ghost to drink. We are all made to drink into one Spirit. ¹And so lift up thy mind from the contemplation of Christ, as he was crucified upon the Cross:² to consider how he now sits in glory at the right hand of his Father, making intercession for thee: by presenting ⟨p. 767⟩to his Father, the unvaluable merits of his death, which he once suffered for thee: to appease his Justice for the sins which thou dost daily commit against him.

As thou feelest the Sacramentall Wine vvhich thou hast drunke, warming thy cold stomach: so endeuour to feele the Holy Ghost cherishing thy soule in the ioyfull assurance of the forgiuenesse of all thy sinnes, by the merits of the bloud of Christ. And to this end God giueth euery faithfull soule together with the Sacramentall bloud, the holy Ghost to drinke. Wee are all made to drinke into one Spirit. ¹And so lift vp thy minde from the contemplation of Christ, as hee vvas crucified vpon the Crosse:² to consider how hee now sits in glory at the right hand of his Father, making intercession for thee: by presenting ⟨p. 767⟩to his Father, the vnualuable me•its of his death, which hee once suffered for thee: to appease his Iustice for the sins which thou dost daily commit against him.

1. 11 Cor. 12.13