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

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.

Two things therefore do yet remain after this ministry and manuduction of the Church. First, an Act of the Grace of Gods Spirit healing the understanding, and opening the eye that it may see wonders in the Law, writing the Law in the heart, and so making it a fit receptacle for so great a light. Secondly, the subject being thus by the outward motives from the Church prepared and by the inward Grace of God repaired, then lastly the object it self being proposed, and being maturely considered by reason thus guided, and thus assisted, doth then show forth such an Heavenly light of holiness, purity, majesty, authority, efficacy, mercy, wisdom, comfort, perfection, in one word, such an unsearchable Treasury of internal mysteries, as that now the soul is as fully able by the native light of the Scriptures to distinguish their Divine original, and authenticalnesse from any other mere humane writings, as the eye is to observe the difference between a