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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: Is there any among you that are faint-hearted and ready to 1shrink away from any sufferings for Christ, as unable to bear and endure any thing for his sake? To such I would say in the words of this Text. Behold the Lamb of God. Did Christ suffer such grievous things for you, and cannot you suffer small matters for him? Alas, what is the wrath of man to the wrath of the great and terrible God! Beside, ⟨p. 101⟩he was an Innocent Lamb, and deserved not to suffer the least degree of penal evil upon his own account, but thou hast deserved Hell, and yet shrinkest under the sufferings of a moment. Did he suffer so much for you, and can you suffer nothing for him? Surely he in suffering for you hath left you an example that you should follow his steps, 1 Pet. 2. 21. What is our Blood compared in dignity to the Blood of Christ? What are our sufferings compared in kind or degree, to the sufferings of Christ? Nothing is found to fortify a mans spirit for sufferings, as the Meditation of Christs sufferings for us doth.
Fourthly: Is there any among you that are faint-hearted and ready to 1shrink away from any sufferings for Christ, as unable to bear and endure any thing for his sake? To such I would say in the words of this Text. Behold the Lamb of God. Did Christ suffer such grievous things for you, and cannot you suffer small matters for him? Alas, what is the wrath of man to the wrath of the great and terrible God! Beside, ⟨p. 101⟩he was an Innocent Lamb, and deserved not to suffer the least degree of penal evil upon his own account, but thou hast deserved Hell, and yet shrinkest under the sufferings of a moment. Did he suffer so much for you, and can you suffer nothing for him? Surely he in suffering for you hath left you an example that you should follow his steps, 1 Pet. 2. 21. What is our Blood compar'd in dignity to the Blood of Christ? What are our sufferings compar'd in kind or degree, to the sufferings of Christ? Nothing is found to fortifie a mans spirit for sufferings, as the Meditation of Christs sufferings for us doth.