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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.
Fifthly: Is there any among you that are impatient under your own 1personal trials and troubles, apt to howl under common afflictions from the hand of God, or swell with revenge under injuries from the hands of men? To such I would say, Behold the Lamb of God. Was Christ a Lamb for meekness, and art thou a Lyon for fierceness? Was he silent, not once opening his mouth when he suffered most vile things from the hands of Sinners, and can you bear nothing? He suffered patiently, ⟨p. 102⟩and deserved it not; you suffer impatiently, and have deserved infinitely more.
Fifthly: Is there any among you that are impatient under your own 1personal tryals and troubles, apt to howl under common afflictions from the hand of God, or swell with revenge under injuries from the hands of men? To such I would say, Behold the Lamb of God. Was Christ a Lamb for meekness, and art thou a Lyon for fierceness? Was he silent, not once opening his mouth when he suffered most vile things from the hands of Sinners, and can you bear nothing? He suffered patiently, ⟨p. 102⟩and deserved it not; you suffer impatiently, and have deserved infinitly more.
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O that you would learn to be more Christ-like in all your trials & afflictions. Let it not be said that Christ carried it as a Lamb, when he was tried; and we like Swine grumbling, or holing when we are tried. O get a Christ-like temper.
O that you would learn to be more Christ-like in all your tryals & afflictions. Let it not be said that Christ carried it as a Lamb, when he was tried; and we like Swine grumbling, or houling when we are tried. O get a Christ-like temper.