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

Now as Adam after once life was infused into him, was presently to preserve it by the^b eating of the fruits in the Garden where God had placed him, because of that continual depashion of his radical moisture by vital heat▪ which made Nature to stand in need of ⟨p. 174⟩succours and supplies from outward nourishment: so after man is once regenerated and made alive, he is to preserve that faith which quickeneth him by such food as is provided by God for that purpose, it being otherwise of it self subject to continual languishings and decays. And this life is thus continued and preserved amongst other means by the grace of this holy Eucharist, which conveys unto us that true food of life, the body and blood of Christ crucified. So then in as much as the Sacrament of Christs supper is not the Sacrament of regeneration, but of sustentation and nourishment; and in as much as no dead thing is capable of being nourished (augmentation being a vegetative and vital act) and lastly in as much as the principle of this spiritual life is faith, and the Sacrament of it Baptism, It followeth evidently that no man is a subject qualified for the holy communion of Christs body, who hath not been before partaker of faith and Baptism.

Now as Adam after once life was infus'd into him, was presently to preserve it by the^b eating of the fruites in the Garden where God had placed him, because of that continuall depashion of his radicall moysture by vita•l heat▪ which made Nature to stand in need of ⟨p. 174⟩succours and supplies from outward nourishment: so after man is once regenerated and made alive, hee is to preserve that faith which quickneth him by such food as is provided by God for that purpose, it being otherwise of it selfe subject to continuall languishings and decayes. And this life is thus continued and preserved amongst other meanes by the grace of this holy Eucharist, which conveyes unto us that true food of life, the body and bloud of Christ crucified. So then in as much as the Sacrament of Christs supper is not the Sacrament of regeneration, but of sustentation and nourishment; and in as much as no dead thing is capable of being nourished (augmentation being a vegetative and vitall act) and lastly in as much as the principle of this spirituall life is faith, and the Sacrament of it Baptisme, It followeth evidently that no man is a subject quallified for the holy communion of Christs body, who hath not beene before partaker of faith and Baptisme.