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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: 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, Eph. 1. 6. The delight of his soul, Isa. 42. 1. Nothing is valued by God at that rate that Christ is valued. If ⟨p. 112⟩[…] ⟨p. 113⟩[…] ⟨p. 114⟩[…] ⟨p. 115⟩[…] ⟨p. 116⟩[…] ⟨p. 117⟩[…] ⟨p. 118⟩[…] ⟨p. 119⟩[…] ⟨p. 120⟩[…] ⟨p. 121⟩[…] ⟨p. 122⟩therefore he spare not the most excellent mercy, but parts with the very darling of his soul for us, how shall he deny or with-hold any lesser inferior mercy? It is not to be imagined he is the mercy Emphatically so called, Luk. 1. 72.
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,