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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
Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years since by Edward Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since by Edvvard Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostock, 1638
MEDITATIONS ON THE HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE LORDS LAST SUPPER. › Chapter 17
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Fourthly, in that this Sacrament is Gods Instrument to ratify and make sure our claim unto his Covenant, we learn. First, therein to admire and adore the unspeakable love of God, who is pleased not only to make, but to confirm his promises unto the Church. Asb God, so his truth, whether of judgments or promises, are all in themselves immutable, and infallible in their event; yet notwithstanding, as the Sun though in it self of a most uniform light and magnitude, yet by reason of the great distance, and of the variety of mists and vapours through which the rays are diffused, it often seemeth in both properties to vary: so the promises ⟨p. 154⟩[…] ⟨p. 155⟩[…] ⟨p. 156⟩of God; however in themselves of a fixed and unmoveable certainty, yet passing through the various tempers of our minds one while serene and clear, another while by the steam of passions, and temptations of Satan, foggy and distempered, do appear under an inconstant shape. And for this cause, as the Sun doth it self dispel those vapours wch did hinder the right perception of it; so the grace of God, together with and by the holy Sacrament communicated, doth rectify the mind and compose those diffident affections wch did before intercept the efficacy and evidence thereof.
Fourthly, in that this Sacrament is Gods Instrument to ratifie and make sure our claime unto his Covenant, we learne. First, therein to admire and adore the unspeakeable love of God, who is pleased not onely to make, but to confirme his promises unto the Church. Asb God, so his truth, whether of judgments or promises, are all in themselves immutable, and infallible in their event; yet notwithstanding, as the Sunne though in it selfe of a most uniforme light and magnitude, yet by reason of the great distance, and of the variety of mists and vapours through which the raies are diffus'd, it often seemeth in both properties to varie: so the promises ⟨p. 154⟩