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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.
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 theb bondage, andc 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 itd 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 theb bondage, andc feare, wherein we naturally are (for feare makes us runne from God as from a punishing, ⟨p. 193⟩and revenging Iudge, never any man in danger fledde thither for succour whence the danger issued, feare is so farre from this that itd betrayeth and suspecteth those very assistances which reason offereth) and it enableth us to have accesse and recourse unto God himselfe whom our sins had provoked: and in our prayers, like Aron, and Hurr, it supporteth our hands that they doe not faint nor fall. It raiseth the soule unto divine and unutterable petitions, and it melteth the heart into sights and groanes that cannot be expressed.