Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

The other Accidental, namely by some violation and distemper of the faculty even within the compass of its own strength; as in soreness of eyes in regard of light, or lameness in regard of motion.^b Great certainly was the mystery of mans Redemption, which potted and dazzled the eyes of the Angels themselves: so that between Christ and man there are both these former Disproportions observable.

The other Accidentall, namely by some violation and distemper of the faculty even within the compasse of its owne strength; as in sorenesse of eyes in regard of light, or lamenesse in regard of motion.^b Great certainly was the mystery of mans Redemption, which poted and dazled the eyes of the Angels themselves: so that betweene Christ and man there are both these former Disproportions observable.

1. b1 Tim. 3. 16.

For first of all, man while he is on the earth, a Traveller towards that Glory which yet he never saw, and which the tongue of^c Saint Paul himself could not utter is altogether even in his highest pitch of Perfection unqualified to comprehend the excellent mystery of Christ either crucified, or much more, glorified: and therefore our manner of assenting in this life, though in regard of the authority on which it is grounded (which is Gods own Word) it be most evident and infallible, yet in its own quality it is not so immediate, and express as is that which is elsewhere reserved for us;^d for hereafter we shall know even as we are known, by a knowledge of Vision, fruition and possession, here darkly, by stooping and captivating our understandings unto those divine Reports which are made in Scripture, which is a knowledge of Faith, distance and expectation; we do I say, here bend our understandings to assent unto such truths as do not transmit any immediate species or irradiation of their own upon them, but there our understandings shall be raised unto a greater capacity, and be made able without a secondary report and conveyance to apprehend clearly those glorious Truths, the evidence whereof it did here submit unto, for the infallible credit of God, who in his Word had revealed, and by his Spirit obsignated the same unto them; as the