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, those things use to make impressions on the understanding which do move and excite any strong Passion of the mind, there being ever a most near activity and intimate reference between Passion and Reason, by means of that natural affinity and subordination which is between them. Observe it in one passion of Love, how it removes the mind from all other objects, firmly fixing it on one thing, which it most respecteth; for as knowledge makes the object to be loved, so^a love makes us desire to know more of the object: the reason whereof is that inseparable union which Nature hath fixed in all things between the trueth and the good of them; either of which working on the proper faculty to which it belongeth, provokes it to set the other faculty on work, either by distinction as from ⟨p. 122⟩the understanding to the passion, or by insinuation, as from the passion to the understanding: even as fire doth not heat without light, nor enlighten without heat. Where the treasure is, the heart cannot be absent, where the body is the Eagles must resort. If I know a thing be good I must love it, and where I love the goodness of it I cannot but desire to know it, all divine objects being as essentially good as they are true, and^b the knowledge and love of them being as naturally linked as the nerve is to the part which it moveth, or as the beam is to the heat and influence by which it worketh: now what object is there can more deserve our love than the Death of Christ? Certainly if it be^c natural for men to love where they have been loved before, and if in that case it be fit that the quantity of the former love should be the rule and measure of the latter, how can it be that our love to him should not exceed all other love (even^d as he justly requireth) since^e greater love than his hath not been seen, that a man should neglect the love of himself and lay down his life for his enemies. And if we love Christ, that will naturally lead us to remember him too, who as he is