creation: which is an endless storehouse, if pursued, of representing the mysteries of Christ.”31 The Puritans noted that participants should prepare for the Lord’s Supper with quantitatively large as well as qualitatively rich periods of time in meditation. “God has taught us,” Owen says, that “the using of an ordinance will not be of advantage to us, unless we understand the institution, and the nature and the ends of it.”32 More than mere understanding is required, since “God’s covenant promises