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for love to the head and members, go together: It's to have repentance lively stirred up & sin made heart-pricking and Godly sorrow to flow: the heart made to loath it: and the mind exercised in forming hearty resolutions, Purposes, vows, and engagements against it: but it's especially to have faith stirred up and in exercise, and to have all the senses of Faith (to speak so) set a going: as when the word comes out and says Take ye, Eat ye, this is my Body, which is broken for you. Faith beholds and gets as clear and satisfying a view of Christs Suffering and dying, as if the man saw him with his Bodily eyes: when the hand is stretched out to take. Faith acts Proportionably in stretching out it's hand to take Christ, and not only grips him, but in this Ordinance and according to the end of it, takes it as a pledge of Christ performing what he hath promised, making use of him for the end appointed: when the eye looks on what is done, Faith is considering and taking a view of Christ and of the covenant and of the benefits purchased by him, and sees another thing then the elements, even the wakened up sword of the Fathers justice pursuing the mediator, as the elects cautioner: when the eye looks on the distribution, Faith it sees Christ made as it were believers Common-good given among them, and to every ⟨p. 36⟩one of them: when the hand puts the bread and wine to the mouth, Faith hath a way of opening it's mouth and (as it were) chewing and feeding upon Jesus Christ, and of strengthening, refreshing, and cheering it self in him counting it self well come to with him and secure in him, and fastening it's engagements to him: all which strengthen our Spiritual life, as eating and drinking doth the natural life: and then when it comes to the taste, Christ relisheth most sweetly to the Believer, so that no Wine doth cheer the natural heart so much as Christ in the Sacrament considered in his love and Covenant, and in the benefits that come by him, do the Soul of the believer; Faith here considers Christ not only as communicable: but as actually communicated. The fourth thing wherein this discerning consists, is a reflecting exercise, when we have received the Sacrament we are to reflect and consider what we have done, and what we are doing, are we indeed feeding upon Christ? What is this in our hands? This bread in some respect is not bread, but Christ;

for love to the head and members, go together: It's to have repentance lively stirred up & sin made heart-pricking and Godly sorrow to flow: the heart made to loath it: and the mind exercised in forming hearty resolutions, Purposes, vows, and engagements against it: but it's especially to have faith stirred up and in exercise, and to have all the senses of Faith (to speak so) set a going: as when the word comes out and sayes Take ye, Eat ye, this is my Body, which is broken for you. Faith beholds and gets as clear and satisfieing a view of Christs Suffering and dieing, as if the man saw him with his Bodily eyes: when the hand is stretched out to take. Faith acts Proportionably in stretching out it's hand to take Christ, and not only grips him, but in this Ordinance and according to the end of it, takes it as a pledge of Christ performing what he hath promised, making use of him for the end appointed: when the eye looks on what is done, Faith is considering and taking a view of Christ and of the covenant and of the benefits purchased by him, and sees another thing then the elements, even the wakened up sword of the Fathers justice pursueing the mediator, as the elects cautioner: when the eye looks on the distribution, Faith it sees Christ made as it were believers Common-good given among them, and to every