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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 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.
And as they import his natural affection to his Child, so also, his own spiritual disease, or the weakness of his Faith. His Child was possest with a dumb Devil, and himself with unbelieving doubts and suspicions of Christs ability to cure his Child: The Child had a sick body, and the Father an infirm soul. Satan afflicted one by a possession, and the other by temptation, ver. 22.
And as they import his natural affection to his Child, so also, his own spiritual disease, or the weakness of his Faith. His Child was possest with a dumb Devil, and himself with unbelieving doubts and suspitions of Christs ability to cure his Child: The Child had a sick body, and the Father an infirm soul. Satan afflicted one by a possession, and the other by temptation, ver. 22.