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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.
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 2 Cor. 5. 14.
Secondly: We have also here before us a most sweet and comfortable inference and conclusion from this proposition. If God have so delivered him, how shall he not with him freely give us all things? For Christ comprehends all other mercies in himself, therefore in giving him for us, all other mercies are necessarily with him given to us.
And these mercies the poorest weakest Believer in the world may warrantably expect from God. For as God delivered him for us all, so the treasures of all spiritual and temporal mercies are thereby freely opened to us all, to the weak as well as to the strong.