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 lastly, most admirable was that of the same blessed Paul ^pand Moses^q, whose feeling of Community transported them not only beyond the fear, but even into a conditional desire of their own destruction. In mans first Creation what was that great endowment of^r original ⟨p. 83⟩righteousness, but such a harmony of all mans faculties, as that there was no Schism in the Body, no part unsubordinated, or unjointed from the rest, but did each conspire with other unto the service of the whole, and with the whole unto the service of God? and what was the immediate effect of that great fall of man, but the breaking, and^s unjointing of his faculties, the rebellion of his members each towards other, whereby every faculty seeketh the satisfaction of it self, without any respect unto the Common Good? And as it bred in man an Enmity to himself, so to his neighbour likewise. So long as Adam remained upright, his judgement of Eve was a judgement of unity,^u Bone of bone, no sooner comes sin but we hear him upbraid God with the^x woman that thou gavest me, terms of dislike and enmity. For the removal whereof we must imitate this great example of Christ our head, whose sufferings are not only our merit but our^y example, who denying himself, his own natural^z will, and life, bestowed himself on us, that we likewise might not^a seek every man his own, but every man the good of another,^b