Excerpt from The Table of the Lord But to ours. In earthly language, by material images and with sensible Signs, the Deity holds communion with his earth-born creatures, and chooses to receive communications back again. It was left for the intellect Of fallen man to discover that they are superfluous, contemptible l - to mock at the simple machinery of the for bidden fruit, by which the first movement Of sin was to be detected: to cavil at the similitude Of earthly passion ascribed to the mind Of the impassible God, Of joy, and grief, and anger, and repentance; above all; to pour out the full Vial of his scorn, the very spleen Of his indig nant reason, against that great device, that mys. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.