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

The last End of this holy Sacrament; namely, the Celebration and Memory of Christs Death. A brief Collection of all the benefits which are by his Death conveyed on the Church. The Question touching the quality of temporal Punishments stated.

The last End of this holy Sacrament; namely, the Celebration and Memory of Christs Death. A briefe Collection of all the benefits which are by his Death conveyed on the Church. The Question touching the quality of temporall Punishments stated.

The last and most express End of this holy Sacrament is to celebrate the^f Memory of Christs Death and Passion, which was that unvaluable price of our double Redemption, Redemption from Hell, and Redemption unto Glory. Great Deliverances as they have moved ⟨p. 117⟩the^g Church unto anniversary celebrations of them,^h which Christ himself hath been pleased to honour with his own Presence; so have they drawn even heathen men also not only to^a solemnize the Festivals and deify the memories of those unto whose inventions they owed the good things which they enjoy, but farther to honour even^b brute creatures themselves with solemn triumphs and memorials: nay^c beasts have not been forgetful of those unto whom they owe any way their life and safety; how much more then doth it become Christians to celebrate with an eternal memory the Author of their Redemption, a work beyond all that ever the Sun saw; yea, a work whose lustre darkened the Sun it self, and which the Angels cannot comprehend: matters circumstantial, as Time, and Place; and matters Typical, and representative, as Ceremonies, Sacrifices, and Sacraments, as they receive their particular advancement and sanctification from those works which they immediately respect, so are they not by us to be solemnly celebrated without continued memories of those works which do so dignify them. All places naturally being but several parcels of the same common air and earth, are of an equal worth. But when it pleaseth God in any