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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.
In the words we are to note two things, viz. First, The rise and spring of mans redemption.
Secondly: The acceptableness and suitableness of it to the heart of Christ.
First: The rise and first spring of 1mans redemption, the will and pleasure of God. So it pleased the Lord to appoint and order it, that a remnant of poor lost Sinners should be saved.
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The execution and accomplishment of this good pleasure of God, was that part which by agreement and consent was committed to the Son, and is here called a Law, or command laid upon him. And answerably the death of Christ is represented as an act of obedience, Phil. 2. 8. and respected Gods command for it, Joh. 10. 18. This Commandment have I received from my Father, referring to the Covenant of Redemption, which was betwixt them from everlasting; and this was the rise and first spring of our Redemption by Christ.