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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.
No relation in nature is so intimate strict and dear as this; our Children are not so much our own Children, our bodies are not so much our own bodies, as Christ was Gods own Son; and yet though he were so dear to him, his other Self, his express Image, his own dear Son, he spared him not. God spared not his own Son.
Fourthly: And that which makes a farther discovery of Divine severity towards 1Jesus Christ, is this; that God spared not his own Son in the day of his greatest distress, when he cried to his Father in an Agony, that if it were possible the cup might pass from him: For of that day this Scripture is mainly to be understood, the day when he fell to the ground and prayed, That if it were possible, the hour might pass. When he said, Abba, Father; all things are possible to thee, take away this Cup from me, Mark 14. 35, 36. He beheld his own dear Son sweltering under the heaviest pressure of his wrath, sweating great drops of Blood; crying, If it be possible, let ⟨p. 116⟩this hour, this cup pass, and yet it could not be granted: O the severity of God! He heard the cry of Ahab, and spared him; he heard the Ninevites cry, and spared them: He heard the cries of Hagar and Ishmael, and spared them: Yea, he hears the young Ravens, when they cry, and feeds them: But when his own Son cried with the most vehement cry, that the Cup might pass, he cannot be excused, he must drink it up, even the very dregs of the Cup of trembling, and that to the last drop. O the Justice and Severity of God!
Fourthly: And that which makes a farther discovery of Divine severity towards 1Jesus Christ, is this; that God spared not his own Son in the day of his greatest distress, when he cryed to his Father in an Agony, that if it were possible the cup might pass from him: For of that day this Scripture is mainly to be understood, the day when he fell to the ground and pray'd, That if it were possible, the hour might pass. When he said, Abba, Father; all things are possible to thee, take away this Cup from me,