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

Infinite it is and indeed impossible to take a full view of all the benefits of Christ Death, yet because the remembrance of Christs Death here is nothing else but a recordation of those unvaluable blessings which by means of it were together with his holy Blood shed down upon the Church, I will touch a little upon the principal of them.

Infinite it is and indeed impossible to take a full view of all the benefits of Christ Death, yet because the remembrance of Christs Death heere is nothing else but a recordation of those unvaluable blessings which by meanes of it were together with his holy Bloud shed downe upon the Church, I will touch a little upon the principall of them.

That Christ Jesus is unto his Church the Author and Original of all spiritual^e Life, the^f deliverer that should come out of Zion, that should^g set at liberty his People,^h spoil Principalities and Powers,ⁱ lead Captivity, captive,^k take from the strong man all his armour and divide the spoils, is a Trueth so clearly written with a Sun-beam, that no Craconian Heretic da•e deny it. Let us then see by what means he doth all this; and we will not here speak of that work whereby Christ, having formerly purchased the Right, ⟨p. 125⟩doth afterwards confer and actually apply the benefit and interest of that right unto his members, which is the work of his quickening Spirit, but only of those means which he used to procure the right it self, and that was in general Christs Merit. The whole conversation of Christ on the earth was nothing else but a continued merit, proceeding from a double estate, an estate of Ignominy and Passion procuring, and an estate of Exaltation and honour applying his benefits.