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 besides this universal presence of God wherewith he doth equally fill all things by his essence, which were from eternity wrapped up in his power and wisdom; there is a more special presence and union of his unto the creature; according as he doth in any of them exhibit more express Characters of his glorious Attributes: In which sense he is said to be in^d Heaven, because he doth there more especially manifest his power, wisdom, and majesty; in^e the soft and still voice because there his lenity was more conspicuous, in the burning bush^f and in the light cloud, because in them his mercy was more ⟨p. 93⟩expressed, in the mount Sinai⁴, because there his^h terror was especially declared. According unto which different diffusions of himself on the Creature and dispensation of his Attributes, God (without any impeachment of his Immensity) may be said to be absent, to depart, and to turn away from his Creature, as the words are every where in the Scriptures used. Thus is God united to the creature in general, by the right of a Creator, upholdingⁱ all things by his mighty word, without the participation whereof they could not but be annihilated and resolved into their first nothing: but besides, there is a more distinct and nobler kind of union unto his more excellent Creature, man? for as there are some things which partake only of the virtue and efficacy, others which partake of the Image and nature of the Sun; as the bowels of the earth receive only the virtue, heat and influence, but the beam receives the very Image and form of it, light: so in the creatures, some partake of God only as an Agent, as depending on his eternal power from whence they did originally issue, and by which they do now still subsist, and so receive only some common Impressions and foot prints of divine virtue, whereby they declare