The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

Thus far of the Duties to be practised in the Church.

The Duties which thou art to practise after that thou art departed home, are three. First, to observe diligently, whether thou hast truly received Christ in the Sacrament. Which thou mayest thus easily perceive: for seeing his flesh is meat indeed, and his blood is drink indeed, ¹and that he is so full of grace, that no man ever touched him by faith, but he received virtue from him; it cannot possibly be, that if thou hast eaten his flesh, or drunk his blood, but thou shalt receive grace and power to be cleansed from thy sins and filthiness. For if the Hemorrhoise that did but touch his garment, ²had her bloody issue that continued so long, forthwith stanched; how much more will the bloody issue of thy sin be stanched, if thou then hast truly eaten and drunk the very flesh and blood of Christ? But if thy issue still runneth, thou ⟨p. 362⟩mayest justly suspect thou hast never yet truly touched Christ?

The Duties which thou art to practise after that thou art departed home, are three. First, to observe diligently, whether thou hast truly received Christ in the Sacrament. Which thou maist thus easily perceive: for seeing his flesh is meat indeed, and his blood is drink indeed, ¹and that he is so full of grace, that no man ever touched him by faith, but he received virtue from him; it cannot possibly be, that if thou hast eaten his flesh, or drunk his blood, but thou shalt receive grace and power to be cleansed from thy sins and filthiness. For if the Hemorrhoise that did but touch his garment,