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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.
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.
He saith not Christ was delivered for all absolutely, but for us all, (i. e.) all that Believe, all that are Elected and called, in whose person it is manifest the Apostle here speaks, as Pareus, on the place well observed.
Hence these two doctrinal conclusions fairly offer themselves.