Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

He lets us see, and taste, and feel him, as well as hear him: He vails his Glory under Earthly Elements, and informs our understanding in the Mysteries of Salvation by signs familiar to our Senses; and because we cannot with our Bodily Eyes behold him in his Glory, he presents him to the Eyes of our Minds in Elements, to affect our understandings in the representations of his Death. The Body of Christ Crucified is more visible to our Spiritual sense, than the invisible Deity could be visible in his Flesh upon Earth: And the Power of his Body and Blood is as well experimented in our Souls, as the power of his Divinity was seen by the Jews in his miraculous actions in his Body in the World. 'Tis the Goodness of God, to mind us frequently of the great things Christ hath purchased; That as himself would not let them be out of his mind, to communicate them to us, so he would give us means to preserve them in our minds, to adore him for them, and request them of him; whereby he doth evidence his own solicitousness, that we should not be deprived by our own forgetfulness of that Grace, Christ hath purchased for us: It was to remember the Redeemer, and show his Death till he came^*.

He lets us see, and taste, and feel him, as well as hear him: He vails his Glory under Earthly Elements, and informs our understanding in the Mysteries of Salvation by signs familiar to our Senses; and because we cannot with our Bodily Eyes behold him in his Glory, he presents him to the Eyes of our Minds in Elements, to affect our understandings in the representations of his Death. The Body of Christ Crucified is more visible to our Spiritual sense, than the invisible Deity could be visible in his Flesh upon Earth: And the Power of his Body and Blood is as well experimented in our Souls, as the power of his Divinity was seen by the Jews in his miraculous actions in his Body in the World. 'Tis the Goodness of God, to mind us frequently of the great things Christ hath purchased; That as himself would not let them be out of his mind, to communicate them to us, so he would give us means to preserve them in our minds, to adore him for them, and request them of him; whereby he doth evidence his own solicitousness, that we should not be depriv'd by our own forgetfulness of that Grace, Christ hath purchased for us: It was to remember the Redeemer, and shew his Death till he came^*