Of Holy Communion.
* 1.1Consider Christ as the Physician of your Soul.
* 1.2COnsider 1. What is read this day in the Gho∣spel, to wit, that Christ healed the Leper, and after that the Centurions servant, Matt. 8. and that he is the general Physician of all our Souls; who therefore came into the world, That I should heal (saith he) the contrite of heart. And while he was upon earth, wheresoever he came, Virtue went forth from him,* 1.3 and healed all.
Consider 2. How many diseases Man is subject unto; Our feaver (saith St. Ambrose) is covetousness, our feaver is sensuality, our feaver is rage and anger &c. So many are our diseases, as we have vices. Ponder what concern and danger they are of, as bringing with them everlasting death; how hard to be cured, being of the nature not of outward diseases that ea∣sily discover themselves, but of inward malignities that lie hid from the patient himself, and are in a manner rooted in the very substance of the Soul. What a happiness were it to be cured of all these, and to have a Physician at hand who knows how to apply soveraign remedies against them?
* 1.4Consider 3. We ought to put great trust in this our heavenly Physician. 1. Because he is most skill∣ful, and knowing all things; and that he might have a more experimental knowledge of our necessities, He hath born our infirmities, and our sorrows he hath carried. 2. Because he is most compassionate, even thirsting after our health and Salvation; and there∣fore of his own accord asked that man in the Gho∣spel,