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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I. Thy Faith. This is the chief grace to be exercised at the Sacrament; for Faith is the eye of the Soul, whereby it seeth and discerneth the body and blood of Christ under the elements of bread and wine;1 it is likewise the hand of the Soul, whereby it receiveth Jesus Christ; and the mouth of the Soul, whereby it feedeth upon Jesus Christ. And therefore without the exercising of thy Faith at the Sacrament, thou canst receive no benefit at all.
- 1Qui fide vacuus dente non mente monducat. Chem. Exa.
There is a threefold act of Faith to be exercised at the Lords Supper.
1 To look out for Jesus Christ. 2 To receive Christ. 3 To apply and appropriate him unto thine own self.
1 The first act of Faith, is to look out for Christ; and therefore when thou art present at the Lords Supper, rest not in the outward elements, in the beholding and taking of them; but with the eye of Faith discern the body and blood of Christ under the elements of bread and wine, which indeed do spiritually, sacramentally set forth the body and blood of Christ, as is clear from Christs own expression, for holding the bread in his hand, he said of it,