A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

2. But there is another way of discerning the Lord's body in this supper, and that is by a spiritual taste and relish, for the palate hath not a greater ability of discerning the different relish in the variety of meats man feeds on, than the soul of man (that hath its spiritual senses exercised) hath in tasting the things of God and of judging the different sweets thereof. This is that spiritual faculty that Jesus Christ speaks of when he tells Peter that he savoured of the things of man, ¹but not of the things that be of God. Now this you must well observe, you that do partake of this Supper, whether you do relish the love of the Lord Jesus in his dying for sinners and for you in particular: is this great love of Christ sweet to your souls, sweeter than honey or the honey comb? can you admire the heights and depths of this love, and wonder that the Son of God should take a body to be bruised, wounded, slain for the vilest of sinners, among ⟨p. 237⟩which you reckon your self as one? do you find this love of his to you draw your hearts to a love of him, and a delight in him, and a readiness to part with all for him? this is indeed to discern the Lord's body in this supper: and by this you are enabled to see a vast difference betwixt this supper and all the feasts of fat things that ever you were at in all your lives. If it be so with you, then are you qualified for this supper, and are by Christ's command obliged to partake thereof.

2. But there is another way of discerning the Lord's body in this supper, and that is by a spiritual tast and relish, for the palate hath not a greater ability of discerning the different relish in the variety of meats man feeds on, than the soul of man (that hath its spiritual senses exercised) hath in tasting the things of God and of judging the different sweets thereof. This is that spiritual faculty that Jesus Christ speaks of when he tells Peter that he savoured of the things of man, ¹but not of the things that be of God. Now this you must well observe, you that do partake of this Supper, whether you do relish the love of the Lord Jesus in his dying for sinners and for you in particular: is this great love of Christ sweet to your souls, sweeter than honey or the honey comb? can you admire the heights and depths of this love, and wonder that the Son of God should take a body to be bruised, wounded, slain for the vilest of sinners, among