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Med. 9. Those that are believers they shall be nourished to eternal life, so that there is no fear that ever a believer should quite fall off from God, and die in his sin; Why? Because the body and blood of Christ is given unto him for his spiritual nourishment: though a believer be never so weak, yet seeing God hath appointed the body and blood of his Son for him to feed upon and to drink in a spiritual way, surely then the weakest ⟨p. 270⟩in the world will be strengthened to go through all the hazards, and dangers that there are in the world; tis this that strengthens believers to encounter with all kind of dangers, its this that preserves the weakest grace in a believer, namely the spiritual nourishment that God the Father hath appointed to them, even the feeding upon the body, and drinking the very blood of his Son; this is meat indeed, and drink indeed that will nourish to eternal life.

Med. 9. Those that are beleevers they shall be nourished to eternall life, so that there is no feare that ever a beleever should quite fall off from God, and die in his sin; Why? Because the body and blood of Christ is given unto him for his spirituall nourishment: though a beleever be never so weak, yet seeing God hath appointed the body and blood of his Sonne for him to feed upon and to drink in a spirituall way, surely then the weakest ⟨p. 270⟩in the world will be strengthned to goe through all the hazzards, and dangers that there are in the world; tis this that strengthens beleevers to encounter with all kind of dangers, its this that preserves the weakest grace in a beleever, namely the spirituall nourishment that God the Father hath appointed to them, even the feeding upon the body, and drinking the very blood of his Son; this is meat indeed, and drinke indeeed that will nourish to eternall life.

Med. 10. the last Meditation is this, when you come to this, seeing the bread broken, and the wine poured out, you have an occasion to meditate of the whole new Covenant, the Covenant of grace that God hath made with sinners; for so the words of institution are, This is the Cup of the new Testament: the new Testament which is all one with the new Covenant, only different in this particular; it contains the substance of the new Covenant, but called Testament in this regard; to show that the Lord doth do all in the new Covenant, that is, he doth not only promise such and such mercies upon condition of our believing and repenting, but he doth work believing and repenting, and works grace, and therefore the same thing that is sometime called a Covenant, is called a Testament; that is the will of God wherein the Lord doth bequeath his rich legacies to his Children, to those that shall be eternally saved, so that all the good things in the Covenant of grace they are bequeathed by way of Testament as well as Covenant, and this is a mighty comfortable meditation to the Saints; for indeed when they look upon the way of the Gospel as in a way of Covenant, why then they think this, this requires somewhat of our parts to be done, and indeed God will keep Covenant on his part, but it may be we shall not keep Covenant on ours, and so we may fail at last; but now when thou lookest upon all the good things in the Gospel dispensed in the way of a Testament, that is the will of God, the legacies that God doth bequeath to his servants, this is a mighty comfort to the soul, that all the precious things of the Gospel come to me in the way of a Testament, and that's the meaning of the new Testament, that is, the mercies of God in Christ coming now in the way of another administration, then they did before;