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

Are all these things in me, or in defect of any, do the desires and longings of my soul after them appear to be sincere and unfeigned by my daily employing all my strength, and improving each advantage to further my proficiency in them. Then I have an evident, and infallible token that having thus far partook of the spirit of Life, and by consequence of Faith, whereby our souls are fastened unto Christ, I may with comfort approach unto this holy Table, wherein that life which I have received, may be further nourished, and confirmed to me.

Are all these things in me, or in defect of any, doe the desires and longings of my soule after them appeare to be sincere and unfeigned by my daily imploying all my strength, and improving each advantage to further my proficiencie in them. Then I have an evident, and infallible token that having thus farre partaked of the spirit of Life, and by consequence of Faith, whereby our soules are fastned unto Christ, I may with comfort approach unto this holy Table, wherein that life which I have received, may be further nourished, and confirmed to me.

The second medium formerly proposed for the trial of Faith was the nature, and essence of it. To find out the formal nature of Faith we must first consider that all Faith, is not a saving Faith. For there is a Faith that worketh a^a trembling as in the Devils, and there is a Faith which^b worketh life, and peace as in those that are justified. Faith in general is an assent of the reasonable soul, unto revealed truths. Now every medium, or in ducement to an assent is drawn^c either from the light which the object it self proposeth to the faculty, and this the blessed^d Apostle contradistinguisheth from faith by the name of light; or else ⟨p. 201⟩