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85o Oftbeleyesofheauen. Auguá.de and drinke are infirmities of nature, which growing to ex- Symb.ad Ce- tremitie caufe death ; but (as one faith) there !hall no infir- techum.lib.r mitie and corruption rife with vs; and by the fame reafon, cap./ 1. neither (hall weethen haue thofe things which ordinarily ferue for the fupplie of thefe infirmities and imperfeelions. Onely wee thall then haue that bread oflife, which for our fakes carne downe from heaucn, and that fountaine ("H&c, of which whofoeuer drinke !hall neuer thirfl, with whole pretence our foules (hall be fatisfied, according to that of Pfal.36.8. the Pfalmifl: They 'Nil be fatisfied ? ith the fatnes of thine hoofe, and thou /halt gime them drinke out of the rimer of thy plea lures ; for'ibith thee is the well of life,and in thy light Jhall we fee light. Now if any obie& that the Scriptures make men- tion of eating and drinking in the kingdome ofheauen;and that our Saviour Chrift promifeth to appoint a kingdome ro I uke 22.29.30 his Di fciples, where theyfhould eate and drinke at his table : the anfwere is, that thefe are but borrowed (perches, whereby the holy Ghoft fitteth himfelfe to our capacitie, that hee might glue vs fome tafle of thefe heauenly ioycs in thefe earthly a6lions,which in their owne excellencie,are vnto vs vnconceivable. Euen as Wifedome is Paid to haue /gilled her Prou.9.2. oiéluals,drarrne out her wine, and prepared her table. Which bodilya &ions cannot agree to wifedomewhich is ofa fpi- rituall nature,but are only borrowed fpeeches whereby the excellencieand profit of Gods fpiritual graces,astheknow- ledge of God,a good contcience,and ley in the holy Ghofi are noted and tignified.And ifitbe furtheralleaged that the Angelsthcmfclues and our SauiourChrift after his refurre- &ion, are laid to haue eaten and drunken; we are to know that in them both, they were adìions of power,and not of any neceffitie; and our Sauiourdid not Bate for hunger, but that he might thew the truth ofhis humane nature, by thefe naturals actions of eating and drinking; neither were thefe nreates and drinkes turned into nourifhment, or to the in- creating, or preferuing the fubflance of his bodie,but were again diffolued into their firl+ principles and elements .Now ifany epicure placing a great part ofhis happineffe in eating and drinking,(hall thinke in this refpeé that our euI ate (hail be