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

or lastly, (to use an instance from the Jesuits own Doctrine out of Aristotle) of a final Cause in an actual existence to effect its power and causality on the the will: for if the^h final Cause do truly and really produce its effect, though it have not any material, gross Presence, but only an intellectual Presence to the apprehension: why may not Christ (whoseⁱ sacred Body, however it be not substantially coextended (as I may so speak) in regard of ubiquity with the Godhead, yet is in regard of its cooperation, force, efficacy unlimited by any place or subject, it having neither sphere of activity, nor stint of merit, nor bounds of efficacy, nor necessary subject of application, beyond which the virtue of it grows faint and uneffectuall) why may not he, I say, really unite himself unto his Church by a spiritual Presence to the faithful Soul, without any such gross and ⟨p. 98⟩carnal descent, or rehumiliation of his glorified Body unto an ignoble and prodigious form? So then to conclude this digression, and the first End of this Sacrament together; when Christ saith, This is my Body, we are not otherwise to understand it than those other Sacramental speeches of the same nature, ^aI am the Bread of Life, Christ was that rock, and the like, it being a common thing not only in^b holy Scriptures, but even in^c profane Writers also to call the instrumental Elements by the name of that Covenant of which they are only the Sacrifices, seals, and visible confirmations, because of that relation and near resemblance that is between them.

or lastly, (to use an instance from the Jesuites owne Doctrine out of Aristotle) of a finall Cause in an actuall existence to effect its power and causality on the the will: for if the^h finall Cause doe truely and really produce its effect, though it have not any materiall, grosse Presence, but onely an intellectuall Presence to the apprehension: why may not Christ (whose