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

Secondly, at the receiving of this holy Sacrament their custom was to^l kiss one another with an holy kiss or a kiss of love, as a testification of mutual dearness, it proceeding from the^a exiliency of the spirits and readiness of Nature to meet and unite it self unto the thing• beloved; for love is nothing else but a delightful affection arising from an attractive power in the goodness of some excellent Object, unto which it endeavoureth to cleave and to unite it self, and therefore it was an argument of hellish hypocrisy in Judas, and an imitation of his father the Devil, (who transformeth himself into an Angel of Light for the enlargement of his kingdom) to use this holy symbol of love for the instrument of a hatred so much the more devilish than any, by how much the object of it was the more divine.

Secondly, at the receiving of this holy Sacrament their custome was to^l kisse one another with an holy kisse or a kisse of love, as a testification of mutuall dearenesse, it proceeding from the^a exiliency of the spirits and readinesse of Nature to meet and unite it selfe unto the thing• beloved; for love is nothing else but a delightfull affection arising from an attractive power in the goodnesse of some excellent Object, unto which it endeavoureth to cleave and to unite it selfe, and therefore it was an argument of hellish hypocrisie in Iudas, and an imitation of his father the Divell, (who transformeth himselfe into an Angell of Light for the enlargement of his kingdome) to use this holy symbole of love for the instrument of a hatred so much the more devilish than any, by how much the object of it was the more divine.

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