Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

2. Direction.

But seeing the activity of your love will be according to the activity of your faith, therefore in the next place I advise you to make it the main work and business of this hour to exercise your faith upon Jesus Christ; set your selves this day to believe; the more strong the direct acts of your faith shall be, the more clear and comfortable its reflex acts are like to be. There are three distinct offices or employments for your faith at this Table, viz. 1. To realize 2. To apply 3. To infer from the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

But seeing the activity of your love will be according to the activity of your faith, therefore in the next place I advise you to make it the main work and business of this hour to exercise your faith upon Jesus Christ; set your selves this day to believe; the more strong the direct acts of your faith shall be, the more clear and comfortable its reflex acts are like to be. There are three distinct offices or imployments for your faith at this Table, viz. 1. To realize 2. To apply 3. To infer from the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

(1.) Realize the sufferings of Christ for you, and behold them here represented in a true glass to the eye of faith. See you that Bread broken, and that Wine poured out? As sure as this is so, Jesus Christ endured the Cross, suffered the Wrath of the great and terrible God in his Soul, and in his Body upon the cursed Tree, for and in the room of poor Condemned Sinners. Your faith ⟨p. 205⟩for the one hath as much, yea, more certainty, than your sense hath for the other. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save Sinners,