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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.
He that represents himself in the Sacrament as wounded for you, shows at the same time, to the Father in Heaven, the real Body that was wounded; than which, nothing more effectually moves mercy, or stays the sliding feet of a poor Believers hope: And that whether we consider,
He that represents himself in the Sacrament as wounded for you, shews at the same time, to the Father in Heaven, the real Body that was wounded; than which, nothing more effectually moves mercy, or stays the sliding feet of a poor Believers hope: And that whether we consider,
First: The dignity of that body which was wounded, the most h•llowed and deeply sanctified thing that ever was created, Luk. 1. 35. That holy thing.
Secondly: Or his Vicegerency in suffering, He was wounded for our Transgressions, Isa. 53. 5. It was for that hard, proud, vain, dead heart that thou complainest of: Or