A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

All these things are indeed distinctly, and in parts, set before us in the Scripture for our Instruction & Edification. But as the Light which was first made and diffused unto the whole Creation, did suffice to enlighten it in a general way, yet was far more useful, glorious and conspicuous, when it was reduced and contracted into the Body of the Sun; so the Truths concerning Christ, as they are diffused through the Scripture, are sufficient for the Illumination and Instruction of the Church; but when by divine wisdom and institution they are contracted into this Ordinance, their taste and efficacy is more eminent and communicative unto the eyes of our Understandings, that is, our Faith, than as merely proposed by parts and parcels in the Word.

All these things are indeed distinctly, and in parts, set before us in the Scripture for our Instruction & Edificacion. But as the Light which was first made and diffused unto the whole Creation, did suffice to enlighten it in a general way, yet was far more useful, glorious and conspicuous, when it was reduced and contracted into the Body of the Sun; so the Truths concerning Christ, as they are diffused through the Scripture, are sufficient for the Illumination and Instruction of the Church; but when by divine wisdom and institution they are contracted into this Ordinance, their taste and efficacy is more eminent and communicative unto the eyes of our Understandings, that is, our Faith, than as meerly proposed by parts and parcels in the Word.

Hereby Faith leads the Soul unto a peculiar Communion with Christ, w••ch is thereon made partaker of him in an especial manner.

3. Faith herein respects the peculiar way of the communication and exhibition of Christ unto us, by symbols, or sensible outward Signs of Bread and Wine. It finds the divine Wisdom and Sovereignty of Christ in the choice of them, having no other foundation in Reason or the Light of Nature; and the Representation that is made herein of him, with the Benefits of his Death and Oblation, is suited unto Faith only, without any aid of Sense or Imagination: for although the Symbols are visible, yet their Relation unto the things signified, is not discernible unto any Sense or Reason. Had he chosen for this end an Image or a Crucifix,