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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.
Infinite Wisdom in suiting the Sinners remedy to the cause of his disease. The Disease was the Pride of Man; the Remedy was the Humiliation of the Son of God. Man affected to be as God, that ruined him; God comes down, assumes flesh, and will be found in fashion as a man; that saved him.
Infinite Wisdom in suiting the Sinners remedy to the cause of his disease. The Disease was the Pride of Man; the Remedy was the Humiliation of the Son of God. Man affected to be as God, that ruin'd him; God comes down, assumes flesh, and will be found in fashion as a man; that saved him.
O profound Wisdom, which from the loss and ruin of our Primitive glory, which was the undoing of us, soul and body, takes the occasion of raising us to a far better state, and settles us in it, with a much better security than the former.
O profound Wisdom, which from the loss and ruine of our Primitive glory, which was the undoing of us, soul and body, takes the occasion of raising us to a far better state, and settles us in it, with a much better security than the former.
Who but Jesus Christ, the Wisdom of God (as he is called, 1 Cor. 1. 24.) could ever have ordered and over-ruled the worst of evils, so as by occasion of the breach of the Law to raise more glory to God than ever could have been given to him, by the most punctual observation of its commands, or by the most rigorous execution of its penalties. O the astonishing depth of Wisdom.