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CONSIDER, that though it were an ineffable dignation; farr, passing the inuention of men and Angells, that he who was in the beginning with God, and was euen God himselfe, should build himselfe a cottage of our clay, and become man, like one of vs indeede; yet doth it farre surpasse, that againe, to see the same, not only take our humanitie, but bestowe vpon vs also his diuinitie, conioyned and vnited with the same humanitie, to dwell in vs, to take vp his delights, and suppe with vs, and euen to become our repast and nourishment.
[Affection.] O what thought of man of Angells, is in any measure, able to diue into the infinite Abysse of the burning charitie which our Sauiour Iesus Christ meant to expresse in this most venerable Sacrament! his pious fatherly hart could deuise nothing so sublimely and souerai∣gnely good, as himselfe; and therefore himselfe hee bequeathes, to leaue our harts charged with the demonstration of the greatest excesse of loue imaginable.