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

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^a Samaritans knew ⟨p. 84⟩Christ at first, only by the report of the Woman, which was an assent of Faith, but after when they saw his Wonders, and heard his Words, they knew him by himself, which was an assent of vision.

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 himselfe 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 owne Word) it be most evident and infallible, yet in its owne quality it is not so immediate, and expresse as is that which is elsewhere reserved for us;