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

More certainly than this he cannot have, because howsoever in regard of natural and reasonable operations he be more self-moving than clay, yet in regard of spiritual graces he is full as dead. Even as a man though more excellent then a beast, is yet as truly and equally not an Angel as a beast is. So then thus far we see all mankind do agree in an equality of Creation, in a universality of descrtion, in a capacity of restitution.

More certainely than this hee cannot have, because howsoever in regard of naturall and reasonable operations hee bee more selfe-moving than clay, yet in regard of spirituall graces hee is full as dead. Even as a man though more excellent then a beast, is yet as truely and equally not an Angell as a beast is. So then thus farre wee see all mankinde doe agree in an equallity of Creation, in a universallity of descrtion, in a capacity of restitution.

God made the world that therein he might communicate his goodness unto the creature, and unto every creature in that proportion as the nature of it is capable of. And man being one of the most excellent creatures is amongst the rest capable of these two principal attributes, holiness, and happiness, which two God out of his most secret Counsel and eternal mercy, conferreth on whom he had chosen and made accepted in Christ the beloved, shutting the rest either out of the compass, as Heathen, or at least out of the ⟨p. 173⟩inward privileges and benefits of that Covenant which he hath established with mankind, as hypocrites and licentious Christians. Now as in the first Creation of man, God did into the unformed lump of clay infuse by his power the breath of life and so made man, so in the regeneration of a Christian doth he in the natural man who is dead in sin, breathe a principle of spiritual life, the first Act, as it were, and the original of all supernatural motions, whereby he is constituted in the first being of a member of Christ.

God made the world that therein hee might commuicate his goodnesse unto the creature, and unto every creature in that proportion as the nature of it is capable of. And man being one of the most excellent creatures is amongst the rest capable of these two principall attributes, holinesse, and happinesse, which two God out of his most secret Counsell and eternall mercy, conferreth on whom he had chosen and made accepted in Christ the beloved, shutting the rest either out of the compasse, as Heathen, or at least out of the