were not Those that weepe as if they wept not Those that reioyce as if they reioyced not And they that buy as though they possessed not And they that use this world as not abusing it How are these five directions inforced They are inforced from three reasons The first is in the front of the Text. The time is short Therefore be moderate in all things here The second is in the shutting-up of the Text For the fashion of this World passeth away The third reason is a maine reason too that is from their state and condition in Christ why Brethren faith hee Partakers of the heavenly Calling as he saith in another place Partakers of better things and by being Brethren Brethren in Christ members of Christ he is the knot of the Brotherhood being Borne againe Sonnes of God Brethren of Christ Brethren partakers of the heavenly Calling not Brethren onely among your selves but Brethren in Christ and so Sonnes of God and Heires of heaven What for you to be immoderate in the things of the World Paul wraps up a moving reason not onely to insinuate into them to gain their affection Oh! my Brethren but to adde a force of reason likewise Brethren The time is short And Brethren the fashion of this world passeth away So adde these three reasons to the five directions and wee see how strougly Paul backes his directions Indeed it was needfull for Paul so to do we are so desperatly set on the things of this world we are so hardly taken off that there must be reason upon reason for the Holy-Ghost the Holy Spirit of God loves not wast of reasons to spend them where there is no use And therefore wee must thinke it is a weightie point of great equity that we give eare to these directions that have so strong reasons But to come to say somewhat of the particulars We must remember to make way to what is to bee spoken of these things that every one of these reasons have a force in every direction you that have Wives be as if you had none for the Time is short and the fashion of the world passeth away And so you that weep as if you wept not for the time is short and the fashion of the world passeth away And you are Brethren you that use the world as not abusing it for The time is short and the fashion of the world passeth away So that all these reasons must bee thought on in every particular direction that I speake of only in generall J will speake a little of the first reason The time is short What time The time of the world there is but a little time before the day of iudgment Christ is at hand to iudge the quicke and the dead The time betweene this and that is short it was short then it is shorter now The time is short wee are fallen into the latter end of the world but that is not all Our time is short of our little world our particular iudgment is neere at hand it shall bee with us at the latter day as it is when we dye our time is short the time of our particular life is short and that is more forcible to perswade us The time is short The season of the time which is the prime time The season and opportunity of time is shorter then the time of life for we have not opportunity of time all our life The time is short that is the advantage of doing good and of taking good is short All the yeare is not harvest or seed-time it is not alwayes Tyde it is not alwayes sun-shine and as it is in nature so it is in the spirituall state of thinges we have not alwayes advantages and opportunities wee have not alwayes gales Opportunitie therefore is shorter then time as our time is shorter then the time of the world The time is short The opportunitie and season of time is shorter well I will not dwell vpon this poynt though it bee a great inforcement It is short I and vncertaine we cannot tell how short If it were told any of us heere that within two dayes you shall dye it would startle vs the best of vs all it would make vs looke about vs but who of us all knowes certainly that we shall live two houres The time as it is short so it is vncertaine and heere is the wondrous folly of our nature that we will take so much time to come in trust as though we should live so long and make a covenant with death but one party cannot make a covenant God and the time to come make no covenant with us Therefore it is extremity of Folly to say I shall live so long so long Thou foole faith God when he proiected for a long time and had treasure laid up for many yeares Thou foole this night they shall take thy soule A man is a foole when he makes account of continuing of that he hath no promise of And therefore the time being short and uncertaine too Take it while wee may catch hold of it especially the opportunity of time And then in the third place it is irrecoverable when it is gon there is no recalling back of time when it is past In all these respects we must be good husbands of time wee must be thrifty of our time and not take care how to drive away that that flyes away of it selfe to fast it is a precious thing precious for great purpose What is this little time given us for To provide for eternitie world without end and wee trifle it a way about this thing and that thing to no purpose we fill it up with vanity and with sinne which is worse In this little time we do that that in a long time after we cannot undoe againe that is our madnes and folly therefore The time being short let us take heed what we doe in it we may do that in a little time that wee may rue for eternity we may do that good and get that good in a little time that may stand by us world without end those that have but a little plot of ground oh they will husband it so that they will not lose a handfull of it so those that have but a little time oh let them husband it well sow that little time well sow that seed that may breed a harvest that may benefit us after that wee may say Oh! it was a great blessing that God gave me a little time to get into Christ to repent of my sins c. Beloved there are three maine parts of this little time Past Present To come The Time that is gone let us repent of it if it have not bin spent well that is the best use we can make of the time past for there is nothing to be done in the time that is past But if things have been done ill repent The Time present is to doe
THE SPIRITVALL-MANS AIME Guiding a Christian in his Affections and Actions through the sundry passages of this life So that Gods glory and his owne Salvation may be the maine end of all By the faithfull and Reverend Divine R. SIBBES D. D. and somtime Preacher to the Honourable Societie of Graies Inne Published by T. G. and P. N. LONDON Printed by IOHN NORTON for Iohn Rothwell and are to be sold at the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard 1637. The Spirituall-mans aime 1. Cor. Chap. 7. ver 29 30. 31. It remaineth brethren the time is short let those that have wives be as if they had none 2. And they that weep as though they wept not and they that reioyce as though they reioyced not and they that buy as though they possessed not 3. And they that use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passeth away The blessed Apostle in the former part of the Chapter had given direction in Cases of cōscience being a man that had the Tongue of the Learned to speak a word in season to the wearie whereupon as having in his eye greater matters than particularities as his use is almost in every Epistle he calls them from particular Cases that they should not overmuch trouble themselves about them but the maine The time is short Let those that are married be as if they were not c. But First he gives satisfaction to the particular Cases for as it is in travelling it is not enough to know that a mans way lies East or West or North or South but he must know the turnings and windings the particularities of the way So in Religion it is not enough to know that we must serve God above all and love our Neighbour as our selfe c. Those generalities that Atheists pretend to shake-off all studie of Religion by if they know a few generalls Our knowledge stands in clearing particular Cases which being cleared the way is smother to heaven-ward yet notwithstanding we must not dwell too much upon particulars for here you see the Apostle calls them off Finally my Brethren the time is short it remaines that we looke to the maine c. For the fashion of this World passeth away wherein we considered two points in generall which I will name and hasten to that inlarging of that that I thinke sitting for this time The first was this that A very good way to satisfie Cases of Conscience in particular is to have in our minde the maine For there be many that puzzle themselves all their life about this and that particular and forget the maine in the mean time let a man looke to the maine and he will soone resolve whether it be good to redeeme time to heare a Sermon now and then he will doe it and not make a Case of it for it helpes the maine I came into the world to save my soule c. And so for sanctifying the Lords-Day entirely many have scruples and keepe adoe but if they had the love of God in their soules and did looke to the maine they would cut off that idle question why doe I trifle about this and that idle question how stands it with the maine And so for conversing with company are they such as are comfortable and cheerefull are they such as may helpe to the main no why do I intangle my selfe in that which hinders the maine So we see Paul when he had resolved the particulars he calls them to the maine Brethren the time is short and therefore be in these things as if yee were not as we shall see anone in the particulars For the fashion of this World passeth away To adde a little in this point This is the reason why none but a true Christian can carry himselfe moderately in the things of this world why because none but a sound Christian hath a maine and a chiefe end that swaies the sterne of his whole life hee lookes to heaven and happines and how it shall be with him afterwards and he considers particulars thereafter when another man of necessitie must erre in particulars because he hath not a gracious ayme you have no man but a Christian but he looseth himselfe in the things of this world Well the second thing is this you see that Religion meddles with all matters With the World with Marriage with buying and possessing as we shall see afterwards Saith an Athiest that stomackes it that his waies should be hindred from that commanding skill of Religion which hath to doe in all things What hath the Minister to doe with our Callings with Lawyers with Trades-men or States-men What hath the Minister to doe with these things It is true not with the materials with the particular matters of those that is left to those that are Artists that have skill in the particulars but a minister and a Christian and Religion in any man hath to deale with these things as they helpe to further the maine for Religion is a skill that fits a man for a further end for his last end that fits him for heaven Now being such a skil it must direct every thing so farre as it helps or hinders that The heathen Philosopher could say State knowledge is a commanding knowledge why because it meddles with all trades How hath a States-man skil in this or that trade No not in the particular mystery but he hath skill so far as he sees what may serve for the publicke good Let the safety of the Common-wealth be the law of all trades The State knowledge is the supream knowledg which is for the good of the whole therefore he cuts of particulars if they be mischievous to the whole so all trades wee must tell them of their faults as they are blemishes to Religion for wee must not bee so in this or that trade as that we forget we are Christians and therefore we must heare meekly the word of God when it meets with our particular callings we see Paul medleth with buying and selling with marriage c. How As farre as they might hinder the main Finally my brethren the time is short and the fashion of this World passeth away Therefore be not over-much in these things It is an antient rule summa ratio c. it is the maine reason that makes for Religion as I said before of State-knowledge it is summa Lex though that be the Supreame in regard of inferiours yet there is one above that that is the chiefe Law of all that makes for Religion that is the chiefe reason of all that makes for Religion there be many particular reasons that make for this and that I but Religion faith the contrary and that must rule that is the summa ratio Now I come to unfold the particulars but to hasten to the maine The Apostle heere stands upon five directions and bounds those five directions with three reasons Let those that are married be as if they
is The buildings passe away the owning passeth away al things here passe away and therefore buy as if you possessed not buy so as wee neglect not the best possession in heaven and so pos sesse these things as being not possessed and commanded of them In Levit. 25. There you see the yeare of Iubile in the 50 yeare war that all possessions might returne againe if men would God trained them up by this to teach them that they should not thinke of inheriting things long that they bought for it returned in the yeare of Iubile in the fiftieth yeare so wee must learne that we cannot possesse things long Though we possesse them our selves wee may bee thrust out by fraud or tyranny Therefore Let those that buy be as though they did not possesse Ier. 22. 23. he saith Thou makest thy nest in the Cedars and thinkest it shall be thus and thus with thee Oh! Beloved let not us build and dwell in our hopes and assurance upon that which will yeeld no certaine hope and assurance in this world For the fashion of this world as we shal see after passeth away And then for Brethren that have an inheritance in heaven for them to buy as if they should live here for ever Brethren that is a reason to take them off Brethren buy as if you possessed not Thus you see I have gone over the foure Directions They that use the world as not abusing it Wee may use the world while wee are here in it for we cannot want the things of this life We are members of two worlds while we are here Wee are Members of this world and wee are heires of a better wee have relation to two worlds Now while wee live in this world wee must use the things of this world How many things doth this poore life need while wee are in this world While we are passengers wee must have things to helpe us in the way to heaven Passengers must have recessaries there is no question of that And therfore we must use the world many waies it is a point of Nature and therefore I will not spend time in that But then Vse the world As not abusing it There is danger in using the world there is a danger of cleaving in our affections to the things of this world so much as that wee forget a better world and therefore wee should use it as not abusing it How should we use it VVhy use this world as laying a foundation for a better World VVhile wee live here use the world as wee may further our reckonings for a better Vse the things of the world as wee may expresse some grace in the using of it Vse the world as that the using of it may comfort us when the thing passeth The world passeth But let us use the world as that the grace that wee expresse in the use of it may continue Use the world to the honour of God to the good of others to the increase of our reckoning abuse it not to the dishonour of God fight not against God with his own blessings that is to abuse the world Forget not God the Giver Were it not an unkinde thing if a man should invite strangers if they should turne their kinde friend that had invited them out of dores And so it is to use the things of the world so as to turne God out of our hearts that gives all Turne not the things of this world against God or against others to make them weapons of iniustice to be great to ruine others Abuse them not to wrong and to pierce our owne soules as the Apostle saith with Cares and the like This is to abuse the world when wee dishonour God and wrong others or to pierce our owne soules God hath not given us the things of this world for this end to hurt our selves with them And therefore together with the things let us desire a gracious use of all things for a gracious use of them is better than the thing it selfe Labour to use them as not abusing them as we shall if wee have not grace to use them well as one saith Many men have the gifts of God without God because they have not his grace When we have the gifts of God desire Grace to mannage them well To his children God gives this with the other hee never gives them any thing but hee gives them Grace to make a sanctified use of it They are sanctified to all thinges and all things are sanctified unto them Vse the world as not abusing of it The reason is strong The time is short why should wee bee overmuch in using the things of this world for that is one way of abusing of the things of this world The time is short wee must bee pulled from them whether wee will or no. And therefore let us weane our selves For the time is short And then The fashion of this world passeth away Why should wee dote upon a perishing fashion All things here passe away the things of the world passe away and a new fashion comes after And then you Brethren that are heires of a better world use this World as not abusing it Brethren hee puts them in minde of a higher calling And so I come to the last For the fashion of this world passeth away That is the second reason The Schema that is the Apparition of this world the outward fashion the outward view and hew of the things of this world passe away It is a notable diminishing word in the Originall as if the world were not a substance but a fashion Schema As wee say in Philosophy in the Aire there are Apparitions and substances as there are flying-horses sometimes and fighting-men in the aire These are not substances but Apparitions of things it is but Phasis but an Apparition or Shape The substance and true Realtie of these things is another matter so whatsoever is in the world it is but an apparition When the Divell shewed Christ all the kingdomes of the world hee shewed him but an apparition but a shew of things There is a diminishing in the word Shew And then in the word fadeth away The fashion of this world passeth away or as some translate it Deceives and turnes us aside And so it doth indeed from better things The fashion of this world passeth away That Translation is fit enough It passeth away Now shall wee be immoderate in any thing that passeth away It is but an Apparition but a shew but a Pageant The word is partly taken from a Pageant or a shew that hath a resemblance of this and that But there is no realtie or substance in a Pageant From this That the thinges of this world are but an Apparition or Pageant Learne to conceive aright of the things of this life that there is no realtie in them to speake of They have a kinde of realtie Riches are in some sort riches and Beautie is in some sort Beautie
with those that wee love that wee may have eternall Communion in heaven with them Labour so to enioy our friends that our friendship may continue in heaven considering that The fashion of this world passeth away All friendship all Bonds all Possessions and all that we dote of and are desperatly mad on all passeth away The fashion of this world passeth away It is a strange thing Beloved That a man capeable of high thoughts of excellent thoughts should spend the marrow of his soule and the strength of his spirits about these things that he should tyre his spirits that hee should cracke his Conscience that hee should weare out his Life about thinges vvhich he cannot tell how long he shal inioy them and neglect these things that abide for ever for a man this is ill but for Brethren as he saith for Brethren to doe so that have an inheritance immortall for them to bee cast off the hookes for everie Crosse for everie losse that are the children of God and heires of heaven What a shame is this that Christians are so much in ioy and so much in sorrow for these things It comes from 2 or 3 grounds First they doe not consider and looke upon things as past they looke not with the eye of Faith upon things these things will passe but they looke upon things in passing and they see no alteration for the present they should consider I but what sentence is upon them These are as good as past they will bee gone ere long looke upon things in the world see all things are passed We are dead our friends are dead and the world is gone Faith saith this wee consider not this Eye and so we are carried away with them wee looke upon things passing and there wee see little alteration A man that lookes upon the shadow passing hee cannot see it but if hee come two or three houres after hee shall see it past Let us looke upon things as gone though they bee not for the present gone see them in the Eye of Faith and that will make us consider them as passing away Againe wee are deceived hence in the passing of the things of this life that wee compare them not with Eternitie VVee thinke it a great matter to enioy things twenty or fortie yeares VVhat is this point of time to eternitie Compare this short time here of health and strength of honour and place and friends what is this to Eternitie what desperate follie is it to venture the losse of Eternitie for the enioying of these things Compare these things with world without end and that will keepe us from being deceived with these passing things we are deceived because wee laie them not in the ballance with things that are for ever And then the third ground is wee are forgetfull wee are not mindefull of our best condition wee make not that use of our knowledge that wee might When a Christian is all in passion all in Ioy all in feares or in griefe why what is the matter at that time What thoughts hath hee of his Eternall estate of the fading condition of these things he is forgetfull and mindelesse And therefore let us labour oft to keepe our soules in a heavenly frame And to draw to a conclusion let us leame to value our selves above all things below if we be Christians as we al pro felse our selues to be value our selves above all things below It is a poorenesse of spirit for a Christian for to over-ioy or to over-grieve for any thing that is worse than himselfe Are not all things so that are here if we be Christians indeed if were not Christians the very toads and serpents are better then blaspheming and filthy Creatures that are opposers of Gods Ordinances they are better than such wretches as many among us the Divell is almost as good as they such are next the Divell The earth they treade on is better than they but if a man have grace in him all the world is inferiour to him What weakenesse of spirit is it therefore and emptinesse to bee put off with overmuch cause of griefe and forrow for any thing below that is meaner than our selves for any thing that is fading when wee have a condition that is not subject to fade And therefore oft thinke of our dignitie in Christ thinke of this motive here Brethren thinke of that as well as of the fading condition here If wee would weane our selves from these things oft thinke of the eternall estate of a Christian that our thoughts may runne upon that much and then upon the fraile condition of all things below that wee may be taken off from them for two things mortifie a man The taking off of his affections from that they are set on And to set them upon that that will fill them and satisfie them to the full If a man doe that hee doth that that a mortified man should doe that is in this world passing to a better To conclude all with this All things here in this world are subordinate to a further end And let us consider therefore that wee use them as that wee loose not the maine All the contentments of a Traveller are subordinate to helpe him to his iourneyes end If things come amisse in his Inne will hee quarrell with Host that hee hath not a soft bed Hee will thinke I am going I shall have better at home and these lead me homeward so all things below are subordinate helpes to better Shall wee make them the maine Shall wee make all things subordinate to them as worldlings doe subordinate Religion to worldly things and make all things contrary They do not grieve as though they grieved not but they heare as if they heard not They receive the Sacrament as if they received it not They pray as if they prayed not They speake of Holy things and do them as if they did them not All things in Religion as if not but for other things they are drowned in them This is the policie of Sathan that labours to bring Religion to bee subordinate So that if men can bee religious and have the favour of such a one If hee can be Religious and bee great in the world hee will but if Religion it selfe and the standing for it hinder their aimes away with it they will rather bee hollow then stand for a good cause because they have not learned to subordinate things to the maine end and the reason is because they have not Grace and heavenly VVisedome to teach them in what place things should bee valued what is the maine and what attends upon the maine and therefore they take by-things for the maine and the maine for the by Indeed no man is wise but a sound Christian and hee is wise for his soule and hee is wise for Eternitie But what is this for the Sacrament To cut off other things it is this Are all things perishing
food such as we must leave vaine and emptie things Will not this therefore make us seek the maine the food that indures to everlasting life and labour to bee in Christ more and more labour to cherish Communion with Christ that Everlasting Bond VVhat is the Sacrament but the Food of our Soules our Everlasting Manna that will continue for ever and make us continue for ever Christ if we have him hee continues for ever and hee makes us continue for ever too And therefore considering that all things else are vaine I beseech you let the consideration of that that hath beene spoken bee as sowre herbes to make the Passeover to make Christ relish the better Oh! Are all things vaine and shall I not labour to have my part in that that shall never die in him that is my Husband for ever and my Lord for ever Shall I not labour to strengthen mine Interest in him that hath all good things in him What if all the earth should fayle If I have Communion with Christ I have all If I marry Christ I have all with him All is my Ioynture if I have Christ once All things are yours if you are Christs If I have Christ what can I want when I receive the Sacrament having Communion with Christ Let this strengthen my desire to come to the Sacrament in this that I have spoken that all other things fayle our communion with Christ is Everlasting Therefore looke to that Christ is the food of the soule all other food the sweetnesse of it is gone within a quarter of an houre The sweetnesse is gone presently and the strength within a day or two of all other food that wee take but this food Christ the food of the Soule Christ offering himselfe unto death and shedding out his bloud and giving his bodie to bee crucified for us This food feedes our soules to everlasting life VVee cherish our Faith in the assurance of the favour of God to everlasting the sweetnesse the strength and the comfort of this food indures for ever And therefore considering that all other things are food that perisheth labour for that that will feed us to everlasting life And then wee shall make a right use of the alteration and change of all things A heathen man can say this Text all that I have set Brethren aside a heathen man could tell you The time is short And the fashion of things passe away Hee sees them and thereupon could inferre the Negative part therfore wee should not be worldly for the Negative part by the light of Nature a man that hath no Religion may bee sound in that and therefore not to care much for earthly things considering that wee must bee gone A Heathen man could speake very sweetly this way as Plutarch and Seneca and the rest what fine speeches had they this way Oh! but the Positive part that is when we see all things here are vaine and fading to know what wee must cleave too that is proper to religion to know Christ the good we have by Christ when we have him we have al he is the of our soules these things are proper to Religion and therefore let us arise from the consideration of the Vanitie of all things to the positive part to interest our selves in that that is better then all things Which if we have we have all and then we shall make a right use of this FINIS A Table of the severall Heads contained in this Booke WE must know Particulars in our journey to Heaven pag. 2 1. Doctrine A very good way to satisfie cases of Conscience in particular is to have in our minde the maine p. 3. Reason why none but a sound Christian can carry himselfe moderatly in the things of this world p. 5. 2. Doctrine Religion meddles with all matters p. 6 Religion is a skill that fits a man for a further end p. 7. Religion guides all to the maine p. 7. Time is short 13. The world is short Our life is short Opportunitie is short Time uncertaine 14 Time irrecoverable p. 15. Time hath three maine parts p. 17. Time past in ill repent ibid. Time present doe good ibid Time to come get into such an estate as is not lyable to time p. 18. Advice to youth to age p. 19. Neglect of time makes us worse than the Divell p. 20. Marriage lawfull p. 21. A liberty to marry p. 24. Who brought in a base esteeme of Marriage p. 25. A danger in Marriage p. 25. Those that have Wives to be as if they had none how understood p. 27. Bonds in Religion above all bonds p. 28. Weeping lawfull p 30 For what wee are bound to weep p. 31. Wee ought to grieve p. 31. Danger in weeping overmuch for crosses p. 32. God takes it vnkindely when wee over-grieve for the losse of worldly comforts ibid. Though our weeping be for sinne there must bee a moderation p. 34 What to doe when we are tempted to overgrieve for any earthly thing p. 35. Ioy lawfull p. 36 Danger in over-joying p. 37. Religion is seene especially in moderating the affections p. 39. Many Christians intemperate in their griefe and joy not having learned to schoole their affections ib. Affections of Christians mixed p. 41 A carnall man is in simples if merry hee is mad ibid. Grace tempers the Affections in a godly man ibid. Buying is lawfull and why 42. Danger in buying 43. Buy so as not to neglect the best possession p. 44. Vsing the world lawfull p. 46. Danger in using the word p. 47 What it is to abuse the world p. 49 Labour to use it as not abusing it ibid. The world is a fashion or a shew p. 51. Things of this life are a shew p. 53 Things in Religion reall p. 56 The world passeth away 61 Reasons why it passeth away 1. Because they were made of nothing p. 63. 2. Because there is a sentence of mutabilitie passed on it p. 64 Not to grieve for the losse of things below p. 65 Learne to bee content with little p. 66. Be moderate in desires p. 67. Prouide for better things after all these things are gone p. 68. The world to low for a Christians thoughts p. 71. Why Christians are excessive in outward things the grounds p. 72. 1. They looke not on them as past ibid. 2 They compare them not with Eternitie p. 74. 3 They forget their better condition p. 74. Reason why men aime not at the maine p. 79. Application to the Sacrament p. 80. How wee ought to labour for things certaine and not fading p. 82. Perlegi hanc Concionem dignamque iudico quae Typis mandetur THO. WEEKES R. P. Ep. Lond. Cap. Domest We must know particulars in our journey to heaven Doct 1. Looking to the maine helps particulars Doct. 2. Religion reacheth to other callings Religion guides all to the maine The five particular directions The time is short 1. Of the World 2 Of our life 2. Of opportunity 1. Time is short 2 Time is uncertain 3. It is irrecoverable 1 Repent the time past in ill 2. For time present do good 3. For time to come get into such a state as is not lyable to time Advice to youth A memorandum to old age Our neglect of time makes us worse than the Divel Marriage lawfull 1 A liberty to marry 2. Danger Those that have wives to be as if they had none how to be understood Bonds in Religion above all other Weeping lawfull Weeping excessive dangerous Excessive griefe argues want of trust in God Moderation in griefe for sin Ioy lawfull Danger in Ioy. Religion in the affections chiefely Affections of Christians mixed Buying lawfull Danger in buying Vsing the world lawfull Danger in vsing the world The world a shew Vse Things of this life shewes Things in religion reall It passeth away 1 Reason because they were made of nothing 2. They are accursed Rom. 8. Vse Not to grieve for the losse of them 2. Vse To be content with little 3. To be moderate in desires 4. To provide for better things The world too low for a Christians thoughte Why Christians are excessive in outward things 1. They looke not upon them as past 2. We compare not with eternitie 3. We forget our better condition Simile The reason why men aime not at the maine Application to the Sacrament