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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 EIGHTH MEDITATION UPON
Psal. 40. ver. 8. I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea thy Law is within my heart.
Casting my eye upon this precious Text, I find it perplexed and darkened with variety, yea, contrariety of expositions. The Jews and Socinians generally refer all to David, denying Christ to be the person here spoken of. Others refer the whole Psalm to Christ, but the best expositors refer it partly to David, and partly to Christ. That this Paragraph in which my Text lies, refers to Christ, is plain from the Apostles allegation of ⟨p. 149⟩it, in Heb. 10. 5, 6, 7. In this and the two former verses there lie three great points of truth, which you may take up in this order.
CAsting my eye upon this precious Text, I find it perplext and darkned with variety, yea, contrariety of expositions. The Jews and Socinians generally refer all to David, denying Christ to be the person here spoken of. Others refer the whole Psalm to Christ, but the best expositors refer it partly to David, and partly to Christ. That this Paragraph in which my Text lies, refers to Christ, is plain from the Apostles allegation of ⟨p. 149⟩it, in Heb. 10. 5, 6, 7. In this and the two former verses there lie three great points of truth, which you may take up in this order.