A Body of Practical Divinity

First, Our Sins. Search if any dead Fly might spoil this sweet Ointment. When we come to the Sacrament, we should do as the Jews did before the Passover; they searched for Leaven, and having found it did burn it. 1. Let us search for the Leaven of Pride: This sours our Holy things. We are born with a Spiritual Tympany. Will an humble Christ be received into a Proud Heart? Pride keeps Christ out—Intus existens prohibet alienum—"Pride swells the Heart; and Christ cannot come into the Heart if it be full already. To a proud Man Christ's Blood hath no Virtue, 'tis like Dioscordium put into a dead Man's Mouth, which loseth its Virtue. Let us search for this Leaven of Pride and cast it away. 2. Let us search for the Leaven of Avarice. The Lord's Supper is a Spiritual Mystery, it represents Christ's Body and Blood; what should an earthly Heart do here? The Earth puts out the Fire. Earthliness quencheth the Fire of holy Love. The Earth is Elementum Gravissimum, it cannot ascend. A Soul belimed with Earth cannot ascend to ⟨p. 418⟩Heavenly Cogitations. Col. 3.5. Covetousness which is Idolatry. Will Christ come into that Heart where there is an Idol? Search for this Leaven before you come to this Ordinance. How can an earthly Heart converse with that God which is a Spirit? Can a Clod of Earth kiss the Sun? 3. Search for the Leaven of Hypocrisy. Luke 12.1. Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees, which is Hypocrisy. Aquinas describes it, Simulatio Virtutis. Hypocrisy is a counterfeiting of Virtue. The Hypocrite is a living Pageant, he only makes a show of Religion: He gives God his Knee, but no Heart; and God gives him Bread and Wine in the Sacrament, but no Christ. Oh let us search for this Leaven of Hypocrisy, and burn it!

First, Our Sins. Search if any dead Fly might spoil this sweet Oyntment. When we come to the Sacrament, we should do as the Jews did before the Passover; they searched for Leaven, and having found it did burn it. 1. Let us search for the Leaven of Pride: This sowres our Holy things. We are born with a Spiritual Tympany. Will an humble Christ be received into a Proud Heart? Pride keeps Christ out—Intus existens prohibet alienum—"Pride swells the Heart; and Christ cannot come into the Heart if it be full already. To a proud Man Christ's Blood hath no Vertue, 'tis like Dioscordium put into a dead Man's Mouth, which loseth its Vertue. Let us search for this Leaven of Pride and cast it away. 2. Let us search for the Levaen of Avarice. The Lord's Supper is a Spiritual Mystery, it represents Christ's Body and Blood; what should an earthly Heart do here? The Earth puts out the Fire. Earthliness quencheth the Fire of holy Love. The Earth is Elementum Gravissimum, it cannot ascend. A Soul belimed with Earth cannot ascend to