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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.
THE SEVENTH MEDITATION UPON
Mark. 9. 24. And straight-way the Father of the Child cried and said, with tears, Lord I Believe, help my Unbelief.
THE occasion of these words is to be gathered from the Context, and briefly it was this; A tender Father brings a possessed Child to Christ to be cured, with a Sipotes, a doubting question, If thou canst do any thing, have compassion upon us, and help us. Words imparting much natural affection and tender love to his Child. Have Compassion [upon us] and [help us] If the Child be ⟨p. 126⟩sick, the Parent is not well. What touches the Child is felt by his Father.
THE occasion of these words is to be gather'd from the Context, and briefly it was this; A tender Father brings a possessed Child to Christ to be cured, with a Sipotes, a doubting question, If thou canst do any thing, have compassion upon us, and help us. Words imparting much natural affection and tender love to his Child. Have Compassion [upon us] and [help us] If the Child be ⟨p. 126⟩sick, the Parent is not well. What touches the Child is felt by his Father.