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 state of sin is a state of^a deadness or immobility in Nature towards any good: the understanding is dead and disabled for any spiritual perception: the will is dead and disabled for any holy propension: the affections are dead and disabled for any pursuit: the body dead and disabled for any obedient Ministry; and the whole man dead, and by consequence disabled for any sense of its own death. And as it is a state of death, so it is a state of enmity too; and therefore in this state we are the objects of Gods hatred and detestation: so then, the first part of our Deliverance respects us as we are in this ⟨p. 127⟩state of death and enmity, and it is (as I said before) a double Deliverance, negative by removing us out of this estate; and positive by constituting us in another, which is an estate of life and reconcilement. First, the^b understanding is delivered from the bondage of ignorance, vanity, worldly wisdom, mispersuasions, carnal principles, and the like, and is (after removal of this^c darkness, and^d veil) ^eopened to see and acknowledge both its own Darkness, and the evidence of that Light which shines upon it. Our wills and affections are delivered from that disability of embracing or pursuing of divine Objects, and from that love of darkness and prosecution of evil which is naturally in them, and after this, are wrought unto a sorrow and sense of their former estate, to a desire and love of Salvation, and of the means thereof, with a resolution to make use of them: and the whole man is delivered from the estate of Death and enmity unto an estate of Life and Reconciliation by being adopted for the sons of God: of these Deliverances Christ is the Author, who worketh them (as I observed) by a double Causality, the one that whereby he meriteth them, the other that whereby he conveyeth and transfuseth that which he had merited. This conveying cause is our Vocation, wrought by the ^a