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

Another principal End or Effect of this holy Supper is to signify and obsignate unto the Soul of each Believer his personal claim and title unto the new Covenant of Grace. We are in a state of corruption, sin, though it have received by Christ a wound of which it cannot recover, yet as^h beasts commonly in the pangs of death use most violently to struggle and often to fasten their teeth more eagerly and fiercely where they light; so sin here,ⁱ that body of death,^k that besieging, encompassing evil, that^l Canaanite that lieth in our members, being continually heartened by our arch enemy Satan, however subdued by Israel, doth yet never cease to^l goad and prick us in the eyes, that we might not look up to our future Possession, is ever raising up steams of corruption to intercept the lustre of that glory which we expect, is ever suggesting unto the Believer matter of diffidence and anxiety, that his hopes hitherto have been ungrounded, his Faith presumptuous, his claim to Christ deceitful, his propriety uncertain, if not quite desperate; till at last the faithful ⟨p. 111⟩Soul lies gasping and panting for breath under the buffets of this messenger of Satan. And for this cause it hath pleased our good God (^a who hath promised never to fail nor forsake us) that we might not be swallowed up with grief to renew often our right, and exhibit ^bwith his own hands (for what is done by his Officers is by him done) that sacred Body with the efficacy of it unto us, that we might fore-enjoy the promised Inheritance, and put, not into our chests or coffers which may haply by casualties miscarry, but into our very bowels, into our substance and soul the pledges of our Salvation, that we might at this spiritual Altar