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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.
Fourthly: The tender mercies of God over poor Sinners are in Christ, as 1Christ is the mercy promised, Luk. 1. 72. the capital mercy, so he is the Chanel through which all the streams of Gods mercy flow freely to the Sons of men, Jude 21. the mercy of God to Eternal life, or his saving mercies are only dispensed to us through Jesus Christ. Behold ⟨p. 93⟩the Lamb of God! A Lamb prepared by the astonishing mercy of God, a Sacrifice for us, when no Sacrifice is laid out for fallen Angels. Mercy alone hath made this difference; mercy opened its tender eye, and looked through Christ upon us in the depth of our misery. In Christ it is that the milder attribute of mercy is exercised upon us, whilst severe Justice punishes them.
Fourthly: The tender mercies of God over poor Sinners are in Christ, as 1Christ is the mercy promised, Luk. 1. 72. the capital mercy, so he is the Chanel through which all the streams of Gods mercy flow freely to the Sons of men, Jude 21. the mercy of God to Eternal life, or his saving mercies are only dispenced to us through Jesus Christ. Behold ⟨p. 93⟩the Lamb of God! A Lamb prepared by the astonishing mercy of God, a Sacrifice for us, when no Sacrifice is laid out for fallen Angels. Mercy alone hath made this difference; mercy opened its tender eye, and looked through Christ upon us in the depth of our misery. In Christ it is that the milder attribute of mercy is exercised upon us, whilst severe Justice punishes them.
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