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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.
Behold the Lamb of God. q. d. This is the great expectation and hope of all Ages. This person whom you behold, is the desire of all Nations. Lo, this is God manifest in flesh. This is the great Sacrifice, the Lamb of God. Never did humane eyes behold such an object before.
Behold the Lamb of God. q. d. This is the great •xpectation and hope of all Ages. This person whom you behold, is the desire of all Nations. Loe, this is God manifest in flesh. This is the great Sacrifice, the Lamb of God. Never did humane eyes behold such an object before.
Secondly: The testimony it self, ⟨p. 86⟩1which must be considered two ways, as it respects, 1. The truth and reality 2. The virtue and dignity of Christ its object.
Secondly: The testimony it self, ⟨p. 86⟩1which must be considered two ways, as it respects, 1. The truth and reality 2. The vertue and dignity of Christ its object.
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First: Johns Testimony respects the the truth and reality of the object; this is [Greek or Hebrew], the Lamb of God, the very Antitype to which all legal Sacrifices had respect, and from which they derived all their value and virtue, grace and truth came by Christ, as he had said before, ver. 17. The Paschal Lamb, and Lamb for daily Sacrifice, were but the Types and Shadows of this Lamb of God.