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CONSIDER yet a fourth sorte of Mariage; which is made euery day to all kinds of faithfull soules which ap∣proche to the B. Sacrament. Wherin we are made one with that diuinely deare spouse of ours not onely by charitie, but euen in realitie, and in verie deede; we
are mingled with that sacred flesh of his in that celestiall banket which he bestowes vpon vs, to shew vs the excesse of his loue Whence S. Christome saith: therfor it was that he ioynd himselfe with vs and mixed his body into vs, to the'nd we might be come one with him, as the body is ioyned to the heade: for, euen as one who powres mel∣ted waxe, saith Cyrill, into other waxe, must necessarily wholy mixe the one with the other: so he that receiues the body and bloud of our Lord, is so ioyned with him, that Christ is found in him, and he in Christ.
[Affection.] O excesse of goodnesse! ô ineffable delightes of that most chaste and sacred mariage betwixt the kinge of hea∣uen and poore man! Here, in this maria∣ge banket, is serued in the foode of An∣gells: nay the kinge of the Angells him∣selfe, becomes the whole feaste! Nor is there neede there of any other wine, then the precious bloude of the Lambe who dyed for our loue, say then, my soule, and let all that loue and feare our Lord Iesus say with vs, quoniam bonus: quoniam in sae∣culum misericordia eius, that he is infinitly good, and his mercys are without end.