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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.
He delivered him, as a Judge by sentence of Law delivers up the Prisoner to be Executed. 'Tis true, Pilate delivered him to be Crucified, and he also gave himself for us; but betwixt Gods delivering, Pilates delivering, and his own, there is this difference to be observed.
In God it was an Act of highest Justice.
In Pilate an Act of greatest wickedness.
In himself, an Act of wonderful obedience.
God, as by an act of highest Justice, delivered him up for us. For us, notes the Vicegerency of his sufferings, not only for our good as the final cause, nor only for our sins as the meritorious cause, but for us (i. e.) in our room, place, or stead, according to 1 Pet. 3. 18. and