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

Now as in the union of God to the creatures, we have before observed the differences of it, that it was either ⟨p. 66⟩general unto all, or special unto some, in which he did either more expressly manifest his glory, or more graciously imprint his Image: so also in the union of Christ unto us, we may observe something general whereby he is united to the whole mankind, and something special whereby he is united unto his Church, and that after a double manner; either common unto the whole visible assembly of the Christians, or peculiar and proper unto that invisible company who are the immediate members of his mystical body.

Now as in the union of God to the creatures, we have before observed the differences of it, that it was either ⟨p. 66⟩generall unto all, or speciall unto some, in which he did either more expressely manifest his glory, or more gratiously imprint his Image: so also in the union of Christ unto us, we may observe something generall whereby he is united to the whole mankind, and something speciall whereby he is united unto his Church, and that after a double manner; either common unto the whole visible assemblie of the Christians, or peculiar and proper unto that invisible company who are the immediate members of his misticall body.

First, then^c all man kind may be said to be in Christ, in as much as in the mystery of his incarnation he took on him the self same nature, which maketh us to be men, and whereby he is as properly man as any of us,^d subject to the same infirmities, liable and naked to the same dangers & temptations, moved by the same Passion, obedient to the same laws with us, with this only difference, that all this was in him sinless and voluntary, in us sinful and necessary.