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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: Learn hence, what a fearful 1thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Well might Luther cry out, Nolo Deum absolutum. Let me have nothing to do with an absolute God. Woe to them that stand before God in their own persons, without Christ; how will Justice handle them! For if these things were done in the green ⟨p. 119⟩Tree, what shall be done in the dry Tree? Luk. 23. 31. Did the Son of God fear, tremble, sweat clods of Blood? Did he stand amazed, and fall into such an Agony of soul when he drank that cup, which he knew in a few hours he should drink up, and then never taste the bitterness of it more: How sad is their case, that must drink of that Cup for ever, a Cup that hath Eternity to the bottom!
Secondly: Learn hence, what a fearful 1thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Well might Luther cry out, Nolo Deum absolutum. Let me have nothing to do with an absolute God. Woe to them that stand before God in their own persons, without Christ; how will Justice handle them! For if these things were done in the green ⟨p. 119⟩Tree, what shall be done in the dry Tree? Luk. 23. 31. Did the Son of God fear, tremble, sweat clods of Blood? Did he stand amaz'd, and fall into such an Agony of soul when he drank that cup, which he knew in a few hours he should drink up, and then never taste the bitterness of it more: How sad is their case, that must drink of that Cup for ever, a Cup that hath Eternity to the bottom!
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