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

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 ⟨p. 173⟩inward priviledges and benefits of that Covenant which hee hath established with mankind, as hypocrites and licentious Christians. Now as in the first Creation of man, God did into the unformed lumpe of clay infuse by his power the breath of life and so made man, so in the regeneration of a Christian doth hee in the naturall man who is dead in sinne, breathe a principle of spirituall life, the first Act, as it were, and the originall of all supernaturall motions, whereby hee is constituted in the first being of a member of Christ.