body and bloud, and to suffer and dye for us. O that you were so desirous of occasions to doe and suffer for him!
Consider 2. How religiously Christ observeth all the Ceremonies and Rites ordained by the Law for the eating of the Paschal Lamb; In each of them reflecting upon himself and his Passion, whereof it was a representative figure.
Christ our Pasch (saith the Church) is immolated, for he is the true Lamb that taketh away the sins of the world. Behold therefore Christ with his Disciples standing at the table, girded about the reines, with shoes on feet, and staves in hand, like passengers, eating speedily, &c. whereby were expressed the vigour of mind and promptness wherewith he suffered.
Consider 3. Christ beholding the Lamb upon the table, dead, flead, and rosted, he reflected how himself was to be extended upon the Cross, dead, flead with whips, and scorched with the heat and rage of his torments. Beholding the same Lamb cut in pieces, without breaking any of the bones, he considered the mangling of his own sacred body, and disjoynting of his bones, though without the breach of any. The hast, wherewith they were to eat the Lamb, represented the hasty fury and rage of his enemies to make him away. The bitter Lettice called to his mind the Gall, and bitter chalice of his Passion. And the staffe in his hand represented the Cross which he was to embrace, and to be fastened unto.