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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.
But who can open the unsearchable riches, or recount the ravishing excellencies found in Christ? Angels and the Spirits of just men made perfect behold and admire for ever-more the incomparable excellencies of Christ. Heaven would be no Heaven to them, if they could not behold Christ there, Psal. 73. 25.
But my business rather lies in improving this point, than endeavouring farther to unfold it; for new wonders will appear in Christ, if we behold him to Eternity.
And all the improvement I shall 1make of it shall be in one use of Exhortation, bespeaking every one of you what ever your present condition and estate be, to behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. And
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First: If there be found among you 1