324 A Preparation for the power of the Godhead doth diffufe its vir– tue and operation into the human nature, ~o the enlivening the hearts of thofe who do rightly receiye thefc facramental pledges. ·And thus I hope you fee what \vonders the Lord is to do atnong us. It was a-fi-g– nal n1iracle he wrought at the feaft, when he turned water into wine; but fure ' it is • a greater and n1orc important one, to ..turn bread and wine into his body and blood, in that fenfe . we have been explaining. It was a great n1atter, to feed a n1ultirude with a few loaves and fmall fillies; but a great– er it is, to n1ake a little bread ·and wine becon1e the mean of nourilhment to fo n1a– ny fouls. And, v~ere onr eyes opened to the difcerning of fpiritual things, we fuould fee greater thing~ wrought, and n1ore gra– cious n1iracles perforn1cd, by the body and . blood of our Saviour, than thofe which were done by the touch of his facred body while he lived ~1ere· among men. I !hall conclude this point in the words of St. Cbryfojlom, only defiring they n1ay be un– derflood according to what bath been al– ready faid, n1aking fon1e-allo\.vance for the rhetorical and hyperbolick fiyle, '1 0nu ~~~~ 'rO~ "ueloY nS.:Jf-g~ov, &c. " When thou do11 be.:. " hold the Lord of glory offered tlp, and · '' the
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