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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 9
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.
The second Action is the breaking of the Bread, and powering the Wine into the Cup, which doth nearly express his crucified Body; whereh the joints were loosed, the sinews torn, the flesh bruised and pierced, the skin rent, the whole frame violated by that straining and razing and cutting, and stretching, and wrenching, which was used in the crucifying of it, and by thei shedding of that precious blood which stopped the issue and flux of ours. It were infinite and intricate to spin a meditation into a controversy, about the extent and nature of Christs passion: but certainly, whatsoever either Ignominy, or Agony his body suffered (which two • conceive to comprise all the generals of ⟨p. 48⟩Christ crucified) are if not particularly expressed, yet typically and sacramentally shadowed and exhibited in the Bread broken, and the Wine poured out.
The second Action is the breaking of the Bread, and powering the Wine into the Cup, which doth neerly expresse his crucified Body; whereh the joynts were loosed, the sinewes torne, the flesh bruized and peirced, the skin rent, the whole frame violated by that straining and razeing and cutting, and stretching, and wrentching, which was used in the crucifying of it, and by thei shedding of that pretious blood which stop'd the issue and flux of ours. It were infinite and intricare to spin a meditation into a controversie, about the extent and nature of Christs passion: but certainly, whatsoever either Ignominie, or Agony his body suffered (which two • conceive to comprize all the generalls of ⟨p. 48⟩Christ crucified) are if not particularly expressed, yet typically and sacramentally shaddowed and exhibited in the Bread broken, and the Wine powred out.