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The holy Eucharist, or, The mystery of the Lords Supper briefly explained
The holy Eucharist, or, The mystery of the Lords Supper briefly explained by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by A. Maxwell for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668
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.
2. Bread is satisfying. If a man be hungry, bring him Flowers or Pictures, they do not satisfy, but bread doth satiate. So Jesus Christ the bread of the soul, satisfies; he satisfies the eye with beauty, the heart with sweetness, the conscience with peace.
2. Bread is satisfying. If a man be hungry, bring him Flowrs or Pictures, they do not satisfie, but bread doth satiate. So Jesus Christ the bread of the soul, satisfies; he satisfies the eye with beauty, the heart with sweetness, the conscience with peace.
3. Bread is strengthening. Psal. 104. 15. Bread which strengthens mans heart. So Christ, the bread of the soul, transmits strength. He strengthens us against temptations, ⟨image 13⟩he gives strength for doing and suffering Work. He is like the Cake, the Angel brought to the Prophet, 1 Kings 19. 8. He arose and did eat, and went in the strength of that meat forty days, and forty nights, unto Horeb the Mount of God.
3. Bread is strengthening. Psal. 104. 15. Bread which strengthens mans heart. So Christ, the bread of the soul, transmits strength. He strengthens us against temptations, ⟨image 13⟩he gives strength for doing and suffering Work. He is like the Cake, the Angel brought to the Prophet, 1 Kings 19. 8. He arose and did eat, and went in the strength of that meat forty dayes, and forty nights, unto Horeb the Mount of God.