A27107:910
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When the Minister bringeth towards thee the bread thus blessed and broken; and offering it unto thee, bids thee, Take, eat, &c. then meditate that Christ himself cometh unto thee, and both offereth and giveth indeed unto thy faith, his very Body and Blood, with all the merits of his death and passion, to feed thy Soul unto eternal life: as surely as the Minister offereth and giveth the outward signs, that feed thy Body unto this temporal life. The Bread of the Lord is given by the Minister, but the Bread which is the Lord, is given by Christ himself.
When thou takest the Bread at the Ministers hand to eat it,1 then rouse up thy Soul to apprehend Christ by faith; and to apply his merits to heal thy miseries. Embrace him as sweetly with thy faith in the Sacrament, as ever Simeon hugged him with his arms in his swaddling clouts.
When thou takest the Bread at the Ministers hand to eat it,1 then rouze up thy Soul to apprehend Christ by faith; and to apply his merits to heal thy miseries. Embrace him as sweetly with thy faith in the Sacrament, as ever Simeon hugged him with his arms in his swadling clouts.
- 1Sacramentum requisite sacram ment•m.Sacramentum requi•it sacram ment•m.
As thou eatest the Bread, imagine that thou seest Christ hanging upon t Cross, and by his unspeakable tormen fully satisfying God's Justice for thy sins, and strive to be as verily partaker of the