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

With these and many other the like arguments is the Church furnished to prepare the minds of men, swayed with but ordinary ingenuity, and respect to common Reason, at the least to look further, and make some sad inquiry into the Doctrine of the Gospel. There being therein especially promises of good things made without money or price, of incomprehensible value, and of eternal continuance.

With these and many other the like arguments is the Church furnished to prepare the mindes of men, swayed with but ordinary ingenuity, and respect to common Reason, at the least to looke further, and make some sad inquiry into the Doctrine of the Gospell. There being therein especially promises of good things made without monie or price, of incomprehensible value, and of eternall continuance.

But now though a Philosopher may make a very learned discourse to a blind man of colours, yet it cannot be that any formal and adequate notion of them should be fashioned in his mind, till such time as the faculty be restored, and then, all that preceding Lecture being compared with what he afterward actually seeth in the things themselves, doth marvellously ⟨p. 214⟩settle and satisfy his mind. So though the Church by these and the like inducements doth prepare the minds of men to assent to divine Authority in the Scriptures, yet till the natural ineptitude and disposition of the soul be healed, and it raised to a capacity of supernatural light, the work is no whit brought to maturity.

But now though a Philosopher may make a very learned discourse to a blinde man of colours, yet it cannot bee that any formall and adaequate notion of them should bee fashioned in his minde, till such time as the faculty bee restored, and then, all that preceeding Lecture being compared with what hee afterward actually seeth in the things themselves, doth marvailously ⟨p. 214⟩settle and satisfie his minde. So though the Church by these and the like inducements doth prepare the minds of men to assent to divine Authority in the Scriptures, yet till the naturall ineptitude and disposition of the soule be healed, and it raised to a capacity of supernaturall light, the worke is no whit brought to maturity.