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

These are those good premises out of which I may infallibly conclude, that I have had the beginnings, the seeds of Faith shed a abroad in my heart, which will certainly be further quickened by that holy spirit who is the next, and principal producer of it.

These are those good premises out of which I may infallibly conclude, that I have had the beginnings, the seeds of Faith shed a abroad in my heart, which will certainly be further quickned by that holy spirit who is the next, and principall producer of it.

The operations of this holy spirit being as numberless, as all the holy actions of the Faithful, cannot therefore all possibly be set down, I shall touch at some few which are of principal, and obvious observation. First of all, the spirit is a spirit of liberty, and a spirit of prayer, It takes away the^b bondage, and^c fear, wherein we naturally are (for fear makes us run from God as from a punishing, ⟨p. 193⟩and revenging Judge, never any man in danger fled thither for succour whence the danger issued, fear is so far from this that it^d betrayeth and suspecteth those very assistances which reason offereth) and it enableth us to have access and recourse unto God himself whom our sins had provoked: and in our prayers, like Aron, and Hurr, it supporteth our hands that they do not faint nor fall. It raiseth the soul unto divine and unutterable petitions, and it melteth the heart into sights and groans that cannot be expressed.

The operations of this holy spirit being as numberlesse, as all the holy actions of the Faithfull, cannot therefore all possibly be set downe, I shall touch at some few which are of principall, and obvious observation. First of all, the spirit is a spirit of liberty, and a spirit of prayer, It takes away the