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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.
Again the Scripture every where, besides the external proposing of the object, and the material, and remote disposition of the subject (which must be ever a reasonable creature) doth require a special help of the grace of CHRIST to open, and mollify, and enlighten the heart, and to proportion the Palate of the practical ⟨p. 205⟩Judgment unto the sweetness, and goodness of supernatural truths.* He it is who openeth the eye to see wonders in the Law, giveth an heart to understand, and to know GOD, teacheth all those which come unto Christ, without which teaching they do not come, giveth us an understanding to know him, enlighteneth the understanding to know what is the hope of our calling, enableth us to call Jesus Lord, and draweth away the Veil from before our eyes, that we may see with open face the Glory of God.
Againe the Scripture every where, besides the externall proposing of the object, and the materiall, and remote disposition of the subject (which must be ever a reasonable creature) doth require a speciall helpe of the grace of CHRIST to open, and molifie, and illighten the heart, and to proportion the Palate of the practicall ⟨p. 205⟩Judgment unto the sweetnes, and goodnes of supernaturall truthes.* He it is who openeth the eye to see wonders in the Law, giveth an heart to understand, and to know GOD, teacheth all those which come unto Christ, without which teaching they doe not come, giveth us an understanding to know him, illightneth the understanding to know what is the hope of our calling, enableth us to call Iesus Lord, and draweth away the Vaile from before our eyes, that we may see with open face the Glory of God.
- *Psal 119. 18. Deut. 29. 4. Jer. 27. 7 31. 4.