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

And indeed (if we observe it) the remembrance of Christs death, and the faith in it are one and the same thing; for what else is faith but a review and reflection of our thoughts upon Christ, a multiplied, and reiterated assent unto the benefits of him crucified? and what is remembrance, but the returning of the mind back unto the same object about the which it had been formerly employed? The remembrance of Christ is nothing else but the knowledge of Christ repeated, and the^b knowledge of Christ is all one with the belief in him, they which are not by faith united unto him, are quite ignorant of him. And therefore we find that Saint Pe•ers second denial of Christ, is by the Evangelists diversly related. In some^c I am none of his, in others I know not the man: and certainly, if the one had been true, the other had been true too, for all complete knowledge must have a commensuration to the objects that are known, and the ends for which they are proposed. Now all divine objects, besides their truth, have together annexed a goodness which is applicable to those that know it; so that to profess the knowledge of it, and yet not know how to apply ⟨p. 139⟩it to our own use, is indeed therefore to be ignorant of it, because there is no other end why it should be known, then that thereby it might be applied. And therefore in the Scripture phrase, a wicked man and a fool are terms equivalent, because the right knowledge of divine truths, ³doth ever infer the love and prosecution of them; for every act in the will, whether of embracing, or abominating any object, is grounded on some precedent Judgment of the understanding. Nothing that by the ultimate dictate of each particular and practical judgment is proposed as totally and supremely good, can possibly be by the Will refused, because therein it must needs resist the impress of Nature, which leads every, as well voluntary as necessary Agent, unto an infallible pursuit of whatsoever is proposed unto it, as a thing able by the accession of its goodness, to advance and perfect the nature of the other:

And indeed (if wee obserue it) the remembrance of Christs death, and the faith in it are one and the same thing; for what else is faith but a review and reflection of our thoughts upon Christ, a multiplied, and reiterated assent unto the benefits of him crucified? and what is remembrance, but the returning of the minde backe unto the same object about the which it had been formerly employed? The remembrance of Christ is nothing else but the knowledge of Christ repeated, and the