A27107:912
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.
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 ⟨p. 350⟩spiritual grace, as of the Elemental signs. For, the truth is not absent from the sign; neither doth Christ deceive, when he saith, This is my Body: but he giveth himself indeed to every Soul that spiritually receives him by Faith. For as ours is the same Supper which Christ administered: so is the same Christ verily present at his own Supper; not by any Papal *Transubstantiation, but by a Sacramental Participation, whereby he doth truly feed the faithful unto eternal life: not by coming down out of Heaven unto thee, but by lifting thee up from the Earth unto him. According to that old saying, Sursum corda; lift up your hearts: And, where the carcass is, thither will the Eagles resort, Matth. 24.
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 ⟨p. 350⟩spiritual grace, as of the Elemental signs. For, the truth is not absent from the sign; neither doth Christ deceive, when he saith, This is my Body: but he giveth himself indeed to every Soul that spiritually receives him by Faith. For as ours is the same Supper which Christ administ•red: so is the same Christ verily present at his own Supper; not by any Papal *Transubstantiation, but by a Sacramental Participiation, whereby he doth truly feed the faithful unto eternal life: not by coming down out of Heaven unto thee, but by lifting thee up from the Earth unto him. According to that old saying, Sursum corda; lift up your hearts: And, where the carcase is, thither will the Eagles resort,