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, That man being made by God, and subject to his will, and owing unto him worship and obedience, which in reason ought to be prescribed by none other than by him to whom it is to be performed, that therefore requisite and congruous it is, that the Will of God should be made known unto his Creature, in such a manner, and by such means, as that he shall not without his own wilful neglect mistake it; in as much as Law is the rule of obedience, and promulgation the force of Law.

Secondly, That man being made by God, and subject to his will, and owing unto him worship and obedience, which in reason ought to bee prescribed by none other than by him to whom it is to bee performed, that therefore requisite and congruous it is, that the Will of God should bee made knowne unto his Creature, in such a manner, and by such meanes, as that hee shall not without his owne willfull neglect mistake it; in as much as Law is the rule of obedience, and promulgation the force of Law.

Thirdly, that no other Rule or Religion can be assigned, either of Pagans or Mahometans, which may not manifestly by the strength of right reason be justly disproved, as not proceeding from God, either by the ⟨p. 210⟩lateness of its original, or the shortness of its continuance, or the vanity and brutishness of its rules, or the contradictions within it self, or by some other apparent imperfection. And for that of the Jews, notwithstanding it had its original from Divine ordination, yet from thence likewise it may be made appear out of those Scriptures which they confess, to have received its period and abrogation. God promising that as he had the first time shaken the Mount in the publication of the Law, and first founding of the Mosaical Pedagogy, so he would once again shake both the Earth, and the Heaven, in the promulgation of the Gospel. To say nothing, that force of reason will easily conclude, that with such a God, as the old Scriptures set forth the Lord to be, the blood of Bulls, and Goats could not possibly make expiation for sin, but must necessarily relate to some greater sacrifice, which is in the Gospel revealed. And besides whereas the Lord was wont for the greatest sins of that people, namely Idolatry, and pollution of his worship, to chastise them notwithstanding, with more tolerable punishments (their two greatest captivities having been that of Egypt, which was not much above two hundred years, and that of Babylon, which was but seventy;) yet