Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

Secondly: Meat and Drink are ever most sweet and desirable to those that are hungry and thirsty. It is hunger and thirst that gives value and estimation to meat and drink, Prov. 27. 7. To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet; and so it is in our esteem of Christ, Joh. 7. 37. If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. When God by illumination and conviction makes men deeply sensible of their miserable lost and perishing condition, then ten thousand worlds for a Christ. All is but dung and dross in comparison of the excellency of Christ Jesus.

Thirdly: Meat and drink must undergo an alteration, and lose its own ⟨p. 181⟩form before it actually nourishes the body. The Corn is ground to pieces in the Mill, before it be made Bread to nourish us. And Christ must be ground betwixt the upper and neither Millstones of the wrath of God, and malice of men, to be made Bread for our souls. The Prophet saith, Isa. 52. 14. His Visage was marred more than any mans. He did not look like himself, the beauty and glory of Heaven, but the reproach of Men, and despised of the People. Oh what an alteration did his Incarnation and Sufferings make upon him, Phil. 2. 6, 7. Quantum mutatus ab illo?

Thirdly: Meat and drink must undergoe an alteration, and lose its own ⟨p. 181⟩form before it actually nourishes the body. The Corn is ground to pieces in the Mill, before it be made Bread to nourish us. And Christ must be ground betwixt the upper and neither Milstones of the wrath of God, and malice of men, to be made Bread for our souls. The Prophet saith,