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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.
2. Use of Exhortation.
Did not God spare his own Son, but give him up to death for us all? Then possess your hearts fully in the assurance of this great truth, That the greatest and best of mercies shall not be denied or withheld from you, if you be in Christ. Lay it down as a sure conclusion of Faith, and build up your hope and comfort upon it This takes in the second Observation, and surely never was any truth better fortified, never any inference more strongly inferred. Henceforth may infer Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal mercies; all must be yours if you be Christs, 1 Cor. 3. 21, 22, 23. Oh make sure that Christ is yours, and never hesitate at any other mercy: For
Did not God spare his own Son, but give him up to death for us all? Then possess your hearts fully in the assurance of this great truth, That the greatest and best of mercies shall not be denied or withheld from you, if you be in Christ. Lay it down as a sure conclusion of Faith, and build up your hope and comfort upon it This takes in the second Observation, and surely never was any truth better fortified, never any inference more strongly inferr'd. Henceforth may infer Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal mercies; all must be yours if you be Christs, 1 Cor. 3. 21, 22, 23. Oh make sure that Christ is yours, and never hesitate at any other mercy: For
First: God hath certainly a value and esteem for his own Son infinitely above all other things: He is his own Son, his dear Son, Col. 1. 13. the Beloved,