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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.
THE SIXTH MEDITATION UPON
Rom. 8. ver. 32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
THIS Scripture contains a most weighty argument to encourage and confirm the Faith of Christians in the expectation of all spiritual and temporal mercies. It proceeds from the greater to the lesser affirmatively. He that delivered his Son for us, what can he deny us after such a gift? every word hath its weight.
Did not God spare (i. e.) abate any thing which his justice could inflict upon his Son, his own Son, opposed here to his adopted Sons, as being infinitely more excellent than they, and most dear to him above and beyond all others; but on the contrary, delivered him up, how dear soever he was unto him, to Humiliation, contradiction of Sinners, to all sorrows and temptations, yea to death, and that of the Cross, and all this for us, for us Sinners, for us Enemies to God, for us unlovely Wretches: How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? How is it imaginable that God should with-hold after this, spirituals or temporals from his people? How shall he not call them effectually, justify them freely, sanctify them throughly, and glorify them eternally? How shall he not clothe them, feed them, protect and deliver them?