§. I.
The Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ is a Mystery hid from all natural Men, in their first fallen and degenerate State, which they cannot understand, reach to, nor comprehend, as they there abide; neither, as they there are, can they be Partakers of it, nor yet are they able to discern the Lord’s Body. And forasmuch as the Christian World (so called) for the most Part hath been still labouring, working, conceiving and imagining, in their own natural and unrenewed Understandings, about the Things of God and Religion; therefore hath this Mystery been much hid and sealed up from them, while they have been contending, quarrelling and fighting one with another about the mere Shadow, Outside, and Form, but Strangers to the Substance, Life and Virtue.