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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.
First: Wherein the severity of Divine Justice to Christ appeared.1
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And this will manifest it self in the consideration of the following particulars.
First: Let us consider what Christ suffered, and we shall see the severity of Justice in his sufferings, for he suffered all kinds of miseries, an• •at in the most intense degrees of them. His sufferings were from all hands, from Heaven, Earth, and Hell: From his EneEnemies ⟨p. 111⟩who Condemned him, Buffeted him, Reviled, Scourged and Crucified him. From his own Disciples and followers, one of whom perfidiously betrayed him, another openly denied him, and all in the hour of his greatest trouble forsook and abandoned him.
First: Let us consider what Christ suffered, and we shall see the severity of Justice in his sufferings, for he suffered all kinds of miseries, an• •at in the most intense degrees of them. His sufferings were from all hands, from Heaven, Earth, and Hell: From his EneEnemies ⟨p. 111⟩who Condemned him, Buffeted him, Reviled, Scourged and Crucified him. From his own Disciples and followers, one of whom perfidiously betray'd him, another openly deny'd him, and all in the hour of his greatest trouble forsook and abandoned him.