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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 19
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(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.
And first for the word, to let pass those ⟨p. 188⟩properties which are only the inherent attributes, and not any transient operations thereof (as its sufficiency, perspicuity, majesty, self-Authority, and the like) let us touch upon those which it carrieth along with it into the Conscience, and I shall observe but two, Itsa Light, and its