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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.
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.
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 priviledge spiritual or temporal, which is good for them, and needful to them.
So that in the words we find,
1. A Proposition. 2. An Inference from it.
The Proposition opens the severity of Gods justice to Christ; the Inference declares the riches of his mercy to us in Christ.