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

First, for the^a Elements, they are such as, though naturally their parts were separated in several grains and grapes, yet are they by the art of man moulded together and made up into one artificial body consisting of divers homogeneous parts: men by Nature are disjointed ⟨p. 104⟩not more in being, than in affections and desires each from other, every one being his own end, and not any way affected with that tenderness of Communion, or bowels of love, which in Christ we recover; but now Christ hath redeemed us from this estate of enmity, and drawing us all to the pursuit of one common end, and thereunto enabling us by one uniform rule his holy Word, and by one vital Principle his holy Spirit; we are by the means of this holy Sacrament after the same manner reunited into one spiritual Body, as the Elements (though originally several) are into one artificial mass. And for the same reason (as I conceive) was the ^bholy Passover in the Law commanded to be one whole Lamb, and eaten in one Family, and not to have one bone of it broken, to signify that there should be all unity, and no Schism or rupture in the Church which is Christs Body.

First, for the^a Elements, they are such as, though naturally their parts were separated in severall graines and grapes, yet are they by the art of man moulded together and made up into one artificiall body consisting of divers homogeneous parts: men by Nature are disjoynted ⟨p. 104⟩not more in being, than in affections and desires each from other, every one being his owne end, and not any way affected with that tendernesse of Communion, or bowels of love, which in Christ wee recover; but now Christ hath redeemed us from this estate of enmity, and drawing us all to the pursuite of one common end, and thereunto enabling us by one uniforme rule his holy Word, and by one vitall Principle his holy Spirit; wee are by the meanes of this holy Sacrament after the same manner reunited into one spirituall Body, as the Elements (though originally severall) are into one artificiall masse. And for the same reason (as I conceive) was the