A39680:349
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 Proposition opens the severity of Gods justice to Christ; the Inference declares the riches of his mercy to us in Christ.
First: We have here before us a Proposition containing the severity of 1Divine Justice towards Christ: And this is expressed two ways.
- 11.
Viz. 1. Negatively, he spared him not. 2. Affirmatively; he delivered him up for us.
Viz. 1. Negatively, he spared him not. 2. A•irmatively; he delivered him up for us.
First: Negatively: He spared not his own Son. There is a three-fold 1mercy in God, viz. Preventing mercy, which steps between us and trouble. Delivering mercy, which takes us out of the hand of trouble: And Sparing mercy, which though it do not prevent nor deliver, yet it mitigates, allays, and graciously