A Golden Chain

god sent his son in our nature, & made him feel our infirmities, and named his name Jesus, that is a Saviour, because he should save his people from their sins, and after his death he sent his Apostles to preach these glad tidings, to thrust them in at the ears of us, & set up a Sacrament of them to testify them and to seal them, and to thrust them in, not at the ears only by rehearsing the promises of the testament over its neither at our eyes only in beholding it, but beat them in through our feeling. tasting and smelling also, and to be repeated daily and to be ministered to us. He would not (think we) make half so much a do with us if he loved us not, and would not have his Sacrament to be a witness and testimony between him and us, to confirm the faith of his promises that we should not doubt in them, when we look on the seals of his obligations wherewith he hath bound himself: and this to keep the promises and covenants better in mind, and to make them the more deeply to sink into our hearts, and be more earnestly regarded.

god sent his sonne in our nature, & made him feele our infirmities, and named his name Iesus, that is a Sauiour, because he should saue his people from their sinnes, and after his death he sent his Apostles to preach these glad tydings, to thrust them in at the eares of vs, & set vp a Sacrament of them to testifie them and to seale them, and to thrust them in, not at the eares onely by rehearsing the promises of the testament ouer its neither at our eies only in beholding it, but beat them in through our feeling. tasting and smelling also, and to be repeated daiely and to be ministred to vs. He would not (thinke we) make halfe so much a do with vs if he loued vs not, and would not haue his Sacrament to be a witnesse and testimonie betweene him and vs, to confirme the faith of his promises that wee should not doubt in them, when we looke on the seales of his obligations wherewith he hath boūd himselfe: and this to keepe the promises and couenants better in mind, and to make them the more deepely to sinke into our hearts, and bee more earnestly regarded.

Timoth. Considering that this which you say is too plain, great shame it is that there is such neglect of the Sacrament as there is, and that it is so seldom used: but surely want of faith and the security which overspreadeth this our country is the cause of it, the Lord if it be his will remove the same. Now let me hear a little how you lead your life, and have your conversation among men?