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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.
Thirdly: Beatifically, by the glorified eye. So the spirits of just men made 1perfect, do by their mental eye see him in glory, and all the Saints after the Resurrection, shall with these Corporeal eyes, see their Redeemer, according to Job 19. 26, 27.
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The sight of Christ by Faith (which is all the sight of him that any man now hath, or can have in this world) as it is much more excellent than the first, for blessed are they that have not seen and yet ⟨p. 89⟩believe, Joh. 20. 29. So it is much inferior to the last, 1 Cor. 13. 12. For now we see darkly through a glass, but then face to face. But though it be an inferior Vision, in respect of that which is immediate and perfect, yet the eye of Faith is a precious eye, and the Visions of Christ by Faith, are ravishing Visions; and he that beholds Christ, the Lamb of God, by a steady fixed eye of faith, cannot but admire, and be deeply affected with such a sight of him. The views of Christ by Faith are ravishing and transporting views, 1 Pet. 1. 8. Whom having not seen, ye love, in whom though now ye see him not; yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory.
The sight of Christ by Faith (which is all the sight of him that any man now hath, or can have in this world) as it is much more excellent than the first, for blessed are they that have not seen and yet ⟨p. 89⟩