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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.
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
Thirdly: The end and design of those wounds which was to repair the Honour of God, and the violated Law; the language of that blood (which is said to speak better things than the blood of Abel, Heb. 12. 24.) is this.
Father, have these poor souls wounded thy Name, thine Honour, thy Law? Behold the wounds thy Justice hath inflicted on me for reparation of all that wrong they have done thee! Oh how sweetly doth the Blood of the Lamb settle the Conscience of a poor drooping Believer!