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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 3
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CHAP. III.
Inferences of Practice from the former observations.
Inferences of Practice from the former observavations.
HERE then we see first the different §1state and disposition of the Church, here in a state of corruption and therefore in want of water in Baptism to wash it; in a state of infancy, and therefore in want of milk in the word to nourish it; in a state of weakness, and therefore in want of bread, the body of Christ, to strengthen it; in a state of sorrow, and therefore in want of wine, the blood of Christ, to comfort it. Thus the Church while it is a child, it speaks as a child, it understands as a child, it feeds as a child, here a little and there a little; one day in the week, one hour in the day, it is kept fasting and hungry. But when it is grown from strength to strength, unto a perfect age, and unto the fullness of the stature of Christ, then it shall be satisfied with fatness, and drink its full of those rivers of pleasures, which make glad the City of God: It shall keep an eternal Sabbath, a continued festival; the Supper of the Lamb shall be without end, or satiety: so long as the Bridegroom is with them, (which shall be for ever) they cannot fast.
HERE then we see first the different §1state and disposition of the Church, here in a state of corruption and therefore in want of water in Baptisme to wash it; in a state of infancy, and therefore in want of milke in the word to nourish it; in a state of weaknesse, and therefore in want of bread, the body of Christ, to strengthen it; in a state of sorrow, and therefore in want of wine, the blood of Christ, to comfort it. Thus the Church while it is a child, it speaks as a child, it understands as a child, it feeds as a child, here a little and there a little; one day in the week, one houre in the day, it is kept fasting and hungry. But when it is growne from strength to strength, unto a perfect age, and unto the fulnesse of the stature of Christ, then it shall be satisfied with fatnesse, and drink its full of those rivers of pleasures, which make glad the City of God: It shall keep an eternall Sabbath, a continued festivall; the Supper of the Lamb shall bee without end, or satiety: so long as the Bridegroom is with them, (which shall be for ever) they cannot fast.