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

As in coined metals, it is the substance of the coin, the Gold, or Silver, only that buyeth the ware, but the Impression of the Kings Image is that which makes that Coin to be currant and passable, it doth not give the value or worth to the Gold, but only the application of that value unto other things: even so the Resurrection and Intercession of Christ do serve to make actual applications of those merits of his to his Church, which yet had their consummation on the Cross.

As in coined metals, it is the substance of the coine, the Gold, or Silver, onely that buyeth the ware, but the Impression of the Kings Image is that which makes that Coine to bee currant and passable, it doth not give the value or worth to the Gold, but onely the application of that value unto other things: even so the Resurrection and Intercession of Christ doe serve to make actuall applications of those merits of his to his Church, which yet had their consummation on the Crosse.

And if it be here demanded how it comes to pass, if all these consequents of sin be removed, that the faithful are still subject to all those temporal evils both in life and death which even in the state of Nature they should have undergone; we answer in general, that the faithful dye in regard of the state, but not in regard of the sting of Death, they are subject to a dissolution, but it is to obtain a more blessed union,^k even to be with Christ: and though a man may not take the whole ⟨p. 133⟩World in exchange for his Soul, yet he may well take Christ in exchange for his life.^l It is not a loss of our money, but traffic and merchandise, to part from it for the procuring of such commodities as are more valuable; and Saint Paul tells us that to^a dye is gain. The