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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Joh. 1. 29. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World.
THE scope of this Chapter is to prove the Divinity and Eternal God-head of Jesus Christ. One of those Arguments, by which this great Article of Faith is confirmed and proved, is the Testimony of John. This testimony of John is the more remarkable, because it was before Prophesied of him, that when the Messiah should come, this Messenger should go before his face to prepare the way for him, Mal. 3. 1.
Now among all the Testimonies that ever John gave of Christ, none ever was, or could be more full and clear than this in the Text.
Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sin of the World.