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

First, for the causes of faith, not to meddle with that extraordinary cause, I mean miracles, the ordinary are the word of God, and the Spirit of God, the Word as the Seed, the Spirit as the formative and seminal virtue making it active, and effectual: for the Letter profiteth nothing, it is the Spirit which quickeneth. What the formality of that particular action is, whereby the Word and Spirit do implant this heavenly branch of faith in the soul.

First, for the causes of faith, not to meddle with that extraordinary cause, I meane miracles, the ordinary are the word of God, and the Spirit of God, the Word as the Seed, the Spirit as the formative and seminall virtue making it active, and effectuall: for the Letter profiteth nothing, it is the Spirit which quickneth. What the formality of that particular action is, whereby the Word and Spirit doe implant this heavenly branch of faith in the soule.

(Faith it self having in its nature several distinct degrees, some intellectual of assent, some fiducial of reliance, and confidence, some of abnegation, renouncing, and flying out of our selves, as insufficient for the contrivance of our own salvation, and so in congruity of reason requiring in the causes producing them several manners of causalities) as I take it not necessary, so neither am I able to determine. I shall therefore touch upon some principal properties of either, all which if they concur not unto the original production, do certainly to the raduation and establishing of that divine virtue, and therefore may justly come within the compass of those premises, from the evidences of which assumed and applied, the Conscience is to conclude the truth of its faith in Christ.

(Faith it selfe having in its nature severall distinct degrees, some intellectuall of assent, some fiduciall of relyance, and confidence, some of abnegation, renouncing, and flying out of our selves, as insufficient for the contriuance of our owne salvation, and so in congruity of reason requiring in the causes producing them severall manners of causalities) as I take it not necessary, so neither am I able to determine. I shall therefore touch upon some p•incipall properties of either, all which if they concurre not unto the originall production, doe certainely to the raduation and establishing of that divine virtue, and therefore may justly come within the compasse of those premises, from the evidences of which assumed and applied, the Conscience is to conclude the truth of its faith in Christ.