6. And yet there is great difference between the ark of the covenant, and thy most pure body! Between those legal sacrifices, figures of future things, and the completion of all antient sacrifices.
Why therefore am I not more inflamed at thy venerable presence?
7. The devout King David danced before the ark of God with all his might, calling to mind the benefits bestowed upon his fore-fathers.
He often sung to the harp, being inspired with the grace of the Holy Ghost.
He taught the people of Israel to praise God with their whole heart, and with joint voices every day to bless and praise him.
If so great devotion was then shewn, and there was such celebrating of the divine praise before the ark of the testament; what reverence is now to be performed in receiving the most precious body and blood of Christ?
8. O God, the invisible creator of the world, how wonderfully dost thou deal with us!
How sweetly and graciously dost thou dispose of all things for thine elect, to whom thou offerest thyself to be received in this sacrament!
This exceedeth all understanding! This strongly draweth the hearts of the devout, and inflameth their affections.
9. O the admirable and hidden grace of this sacrament, which only the faithful ones of Christ know: but the unbelieving, and such as are slaves unto sin, cannot experience;