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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.
Fourthly: It was necessary to be so, for the regulating of all our obedience to God according to this pattern. That seeing and setting this great example of obedience before us, we might never grutch nor grumble at any duty or suffering that God should call us to, You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; how that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor. Saith the ⟨p. 154⟩Apostle, when he would press the Corinthians to their duty, 2 Cor. 8. 9. and when he would effectually urge the Philippians to their duty; this is the argument, Let this mind be in you, which also was in Christ Jesus, Phil. 2. 5. So that it became and behooved Christ thus to undertake this great service.
Secondly: Next let us consider and examine whence it came to be so pleasant 1and acceptable to Jesus Christ to come into the world and die for poor Sinners.
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And we shall find, that although the sufferings of Christ were exceeding sharp, and the cup of Gods wrath unspeakably bitter; yet that which made it pleasant and desirable to Jesus Christ, was the prospect he had of the sweet results and issues of his sufferings, Isa. 53. 10, 11. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied, (i. e.) he shall have great content and pleasure from the issues and fruits of his sufferings, as