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 more precious, seeing the Deity itself is therein contained.

Lastly, he desired to feed our souls with some heavenly food, seeing they need no less nourishment than they might live spiritually, than the body needeth corporal sustenance, that she might live corporally. Wherefore, this spiritual physician, when he had diligently examined and felt the pulse of our fragility, instituted this holy sacrament, which he exhibited unto us under the species or form of bread, that he might declare what effect it should work in us, that is to say, that it is as necessary for our souls as bread for the body.

This day thou shalt meditate of the prayer Christ made in the garden, the method thereof; and the contumelies he suffered in the house of Annas.

Consider, therefore, how Christ our Lord, after the consummation of his mystical body with his disciples, before he entered into the tragedy of his passion, went to make his prayer upon the mount Olivet; whereby he would instruct us, that in all adversities and tribulations of this present life, we fly to prayer, as to a holy anchor; the power of which is so great, that it either beateth back the forces of tribulations, or (which is of greater excellen-