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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 3
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How are we all obliged to bless God for Jesus the Mediator, to make us and 1our sinful duties acceptable to God? Sad were our case if this High Priest did not bear the Iniquity of our holy things, as it is, Exod. 28. 38. 'Tis his Oblation and Intercession that obtains and continues ou• pardon for our Prayer-sins, our Hearing-sins, our Sacrament-sins: These alone would eternally damn us, if we had no other, did not free grace make us accepted in the Beloved, Eph. 1. 6. When evil is present with us, then is Christ, our Advocate, present with the Father for us; and thence it is that we are not destroyed upon our knees, and that the jealousy of God breaks not forth as fire to devour us in our very duties.
How are we all obliged to bless God for Jesus the Mediator, to make us and 1our sinful duties acceptable to God? Sad were our case if this High Priest did not bear the Iniquity of our holy things, as it is, Exod. 28. 38. 'Tis his Oblation and Intercession that obtains and continues ou• pardon for our Prayersins, our Hearing-sins, our Sacramentsins: These alone would eternally damn us, if we had no other, did not free grace make us accepted in the Beloved, Eph. 1. 6. When evil is present with us, then is Christ, our Advocate, present with the Father for us; and thence it is that we are not destroyed upon our knees, and that the jealousie of God breaks not forth as fire to devour us in our very duties.