Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

First: Christ is the matter of this Feast. God hath prepared him for your souls. Is any thing in Heaven or Earth so sweet as Christ Sacrificed is? Do not the Angels and Saints in Heaven feast upon him? Surely one drop of Christ's Blood hath more sweetness and excellency in it, than the whole Ocean of all Creature-comforts.

First: Christ is the matter of this Feast. God hath prepar'd him for your souls. Is any thing in Heaven or Earth so sweet as Christ Sacrificed is? Do not the Angels and Saints in Heaven feast upon him? Surely one drop of Christ's Blood hath more sweetness and excellency in it, than the whole Ocean of all Creature-comforts.

Secondly: Don't your graces need it? Have you not a languishing love, a staggering faith, dull and sluggish desires? Look into your hearts, and see what need there is of strengthening the things that are in you, which are ready to die. O feed upon Christ, that your graces may be revived & strengthened.

Thirdly: Do you know how many days you are to go in the strength of this meal? How long it may be ere you sit again at ⟨p. 189⟩the Lords Table? Surely even these as well as your inferior temporal comforts stand upon terms of greatest uncertainty. Ah Christians! Consider well the times you live in, the Enemy that stands ready to take away the cloth, and remove your spiritual food from you. It's said of Peter Martyr, that being in Oxford when Q. Mary came in, and hearing the first Mass-bell ring, he was struck to the heart, and said, haec una notula omnem meam doctrinam evertit. This one tinkling Bell overthrows all the labours of my Ministry at once.

Thirdly: Do you know how many daies you are to go in the strength of this meal? How long it may be ere you sit again at