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 Passion of Christ was his Death, whereby I understand not that last act only of expiration, but the whole space between that and his Nativity, wherein being^a subject to the Law of Death, and to all those^b natural infirmities, which were the Harbingers of Death, he might in that whole space be as truly called A man of Death, as^c Adam was a dead man in the virtue of the Curse that very day beyond which notwithstanding he lived many hundred years, that which we call^d Death, being nothing else but the consummation of it. The estate of exaltation is the Resurrection of Christ, whereby the efficacy of that merit which was on the Cross consummated is publicly declared, and his Intercession wherein it is proposed and presented unto God the Father as an eternal Price and Prayer in the behalf of his Church. Now the Benefits which by this merit of Christs we receive are ⟨p. 126⟩of several kinds. Some are Privative, consisting in an immunity from all those evils which we were formerly subject unto, whether of sin or punishment: others are Positive, including in them a^c right and interest unto all the Prerogatives of the sons of God. The one is called an Expiation, Satisfaction, Redemption or Deliverance. The other a Purchase, and free Donation of some excellent blessing. Redemption thus distinguished is either a Redemption of Grace from the bondage and tyranny of Sin; or a Redemption of Glory, from the bondage of Corruption: and both these have their parts and latitudes; for the first,

The Passion of Christ was his Death, whereby I understand not that last act onely of expiration, but the whole space betweene that and his Nativity, wherein being^a subject to the Law of Death, and to all those^b