Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…

First they are distinguished in will: for the wicked strive to bring Gods will to their will, like Balaam, which when he had an answer, stayed for another; but the faithful labour to bring their will to Gods will, like Christ which said; Not as I will, but as thou wilt.

They are distinguished in Faith: All men have not faith (saith Paul) but the just live by faith: as if he should say, the just believe, and the unjust believe not. The just believe, and apply that they believe to themselves; the wicked may believe like the Devils, but their faith is like the gadding Hen, which carrieth her Eggs to other, and never layeth at home: so they believe that other shall be saved, but not themselves.

They are distinguished in Hope: for because the wicked hope ¹not for any mends of God, therefore they never defer their ²reward: but if they do any good, they are trumpets of it themselves, for fear it should be blazed enough: and therefore Christ said, that the Pharisees had their reward already, because they ³were boasters of their works: and if they do not good but evil, yet they would be magnified as much for evil, as others are for good. But the faithful are likened to Handmaids, which wait their reward: Their left hand seeth not when their right hand doth ⁴well, and they are afraid to take honour of men, for losing their honour with God, like John Baptist, which made his Virtues ⁵