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Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture
Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture wherein believers are assisted in preparing their hearts, and exciting their affections and graces, when they draw nigh to God in that most awful and solemn ordinance of the Lords Supper / by Jo. Flavel ...
London: printed for Jacob Sampson, 1679
THE THIRD MEDITATION UPON › Doct. › Section 3 › Subsection 1
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Hence we may take our measures of the wonderful and astonishing grace 1and condescension of God to his People, who notwithstanding all that evil which is present with them in the good they do, will not reject their persons or duties for all that.
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How doth free grace make its own way through swarms of Vanity! How doth it break through all the deadness, infidelity and hardness of our hearts to do us good! Though evil be present with us, our gracious God will not be absent from us notwithstanding that.
How greatly was the Spouse amazed at the unexpected condescension and grace of Christ in this matter? Cant. 2. 8. It is the voice of my Beloved, behold he cometh leaping over the Mountains, skipping over the Hills. It is the Voice of my Beloved.] That abrupt cutted expression shows a perfect surprise. She saw mountains of guilt and unworthiness betwixt Christ and her Soul, and yet behold he comes skipping over all those mountains and hills: O free grace! rich and admirable grace, which with so many notwithstandings, and neverthelesses,