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

Thirdly, where Faith is there is some growth in grace, we grow nearer unto Heaven then when we first believed, an improvement of our knowledge in the mysteries of godliness, which like the Sun, shines brighter, and brighter unto the perfect day: An increase of willingness to obey God in all things; and as in the growth of natural bodies if they be sound, and healthy, so in this of Faith likewise, it is universal, and uniform, one part doth not grow, and another shrivel, neither doth one part grow too big, and disproportioned for another, the Head doth not increase in knowledge,¹ and the Heart decay in love, the Heart doth not swell in zeal, and the Hand wither in charity, but in the nourishment of Faith every grace receives proportionably its habitual confirmation.

Thirdly, where Faith is there is some growth in grace, wee grow neerer unto Heaven then when we first beleeved, an improvement of our knowledge in the mysteries of godlines, which like the Sunne, shines brighter, and brighter unto the perfect day: An increase of willingnes to obey God in all things; and as in the growth of naturall bodies if they be sound, and healthy, so in this of Faith likewise, it is universall, and uniforme, one part doth not grow, and another shrivell, neyther doth one part grow too bigge, and disproportioned for another, the Head doth not increase in knowledge,¹ and the Heart decay in love, the Heart doth not swell in zeale, and the Hand wither in charity, but in the nourishment of Faith every grace receives proportionably its habituall confirmation.

1. 1Ephes 4. 16.

Fourthly, by the spiritual life of Faith, the faithful do partake of such heavenly influences as are from the head shed down upon the members. The influences of Christ in his Church are many, and peradventure in many things imperceptible. Some principal I conceive to be the