Mensa mystica Author:Simon Patrick Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Introduction. Shewing, r. That God manifefls himself to our fexfe. 2. That Bread and Wine are ft things for the representing our Lord to us. 3. The Fir ft... more » reason of the Celebration of this Supper, and the fitteft time for us to do this that Chrift commands ttt. 4. Which is but a reiteration of what is done in Baptifm. 5. As may be feen by what I ha've briefly writ on that Subject. 6. And if we will extend this thing further, we may lofe all. The Papifts in danger of this who fpeak not the Language of the Ancient Church, j. The De- fign of this prefent Difcourfe. 8. The alledging of fame Heathen Cuftoms and Principles, need be no Offence to any, hut may he an help if they fleafe. GO D who is Simple and removed fa from all Senfe, confidering the weak- nefs of Man's Soul, and how unable he is to conceive of Things Spiritual purely and nakedly in themfelyes, and yet have- ing a mind to be better known unto us, and to make himfelf more manifeft than ever; was pleafed in his infinite Goodnefs to dwell in Flefh, and appear here in the Perfon of his Son, who was made like to Man, to fliew what God is in our Nature. This Son of his, being to dye, B ' - andand part with His Life for great Ends and Pupo- fes, which he would not have us to forget; was pleafed to take the fame Courfe to convey to our minds fpiritual Notions by outward and Tenfible Signs; and to imprefs on our Hearts what he hath done and fuffered, by a vifible reprefentation of it in bodily things, and not only by a plain defcription of it in the Gofpel. He knew very well that a Picture and Image of a thing doth more affeft us than an Hiftorical Narration ; and that the more lively and exprefs that Image is, the more lively motions it makes within us. A dead Corpfe is but the Shadow of a Man, and yet we find that ...« less