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

Secondly we see here, nor see only, but ⟨p. 11⟩even taste and touch how gracious the Lord is, in that he is pleased even to unrobe his graces of their natural lustre, to overshadow his Promises, and as it were to obscure his glory that they might be made proportioned to our dull and earthy senses, to lock up so rich mysteries as lie hidden in the Sacraments in a basin of water, or a morsel of bread. When he was invisible by reason of that infinite distance between the divine nature and ours, he made himself to be seen in the flesh; and now that his very flesh is to us again invisible by reason of that vast distance between his place and ours, he hath made even it in a mystical sense to be seen and tasted in the Sacrament. Oh then since God doth thus far humble himself and his graces even unto our senses, let not us by an odious ingratitude humble them yet lower, even under our feet. Let us not trample on the blood of the Covenant, by taking it into a noisome sink, into a dirty and earthy heart. He that eats Christs in the Sacrament with a foul mouth, and receives him into an uncleansed and sinful soul doth all one as if he should sop the bread he eats in dirt, or lay up his richest treasures in a sink.

Secondly we see here, nor see only, but ⟨p. 11⟩even taste and touch how gratious the Lord is, in that he is pleased even to unroabe his graces of their naturall lustre, to overshaddow his Promises, and as it were to obscure his glory that they might be made proportion'd to our dull and earthy senses, to lock up so rich mysteries as lie hidden in the Sacraments in a bason of water, or a morsell of bread. When hee was invisible by reason of that infinite distance between the divine nature and ours, hee made himselfe to be seen in the flesh; and now that his very flesh is to us againe invisible by reason of that vast distance between his place and ours, he hath made even it in a mysticall sense to be seen and tasted in the Sacrament. Oh then since God doth thus farre humble himselfe and his graces even unto our senses, let not us by an odious ingratitude humble them yet lower, even under our feet. Let us not trample on the blood of the Covenant, by taking it into a noisome sinke, into a dirty and earthie heart. He that eats Christs in the Sacrament with a foule mouth, and receives him into an unclensed and sinfull soule doth all one as if he should sop the bread he eates in dirt, or lay up his richest treasures in a sink.