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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.
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?
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 infinitly 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, justifie them freely, sanctifie them throughly, and glorifie them eternally? How shall he not cloath them, feed them, protect and deliver them?
Surely if he would not spare or abate to his own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery; it can never be imagined that ever he should after this deny or withhold from his people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any ⟨p. 106⟩comforts, any privilege spiritual or temporal, which is good for them, and needful to them.