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

That carrying about and reserving of the Eucharist, which the primitive Christians used for the benefit of those who either by sickness, or by persecutions, were with-held from the meetings of the Christians (asⁿ in those days many were) is by him now turned into an Idolatrous circumgestation, that at the sight of the Bread, the people might direct unto it that worship, which is due only to the person whose passion it representeth, but whose honour it neither challengeth nor knoweth; and certainly if we view the whole fabric either of Gentilism or Heresy, we shall observe the methods and contrivances of Satan, most often to drive at this point, that either under pretence^o of divine truth or under imitation^p of divine Institutions retaining the same material Actions ⟨p. 76⟩which God requires, or with the godly have piously, or upon temporary reasons observed, he may convey into the hearts of men his own poison, and imprint an opinion of holiness towards his own devices: for howsoever his power and tyranny have done much mischief to Gods Church, yet his master-piece is that cunning and deceit which the Scriptures^q so often takes notice of.

That carrying about and reserving of the Eucharist, which the primitive Christians used for the benefit of those who either by sicknesse, or by persecutions, were with-held from the meetings of the Christians (asⁿ in those dayes many were) is by him now turned into an Idolatrous circumgestation, that at the sight of the Bread, the people might direct unto it that worship, which is due only to the person whose passion it representeth, but whose honour it neither challengeth nor knoweth; and certainly if wee veiw the whole fabrick either of Gentilisme or Heresie, we shall observe the methods and contrivances of Satan, most often to drive at this point, that either under pretence^o