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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 EPISTLE TO THE READER.
Christian Reader,
Christ may be said to be Crucified three ways; by the Jews actually, in the Sacrament Declaratively, and by Unbelievers at his Table Interpretatively. Among sins, Blood-guiltiness is reckoned one of the most heinous, and of all Blood-guiltiness to be guilty of the Blood of Christ, is a sin of the deepest guilt, and will be avenged with the most dreadful punishment, 1 Cor. 11. 27, 29. If Vengeance be taken sevenfold on ⟨image 3⟩him that Slew Cain, what Vengeance shall be taken on him that Crucifies afresh the Lord of glory?
CHrist may be said to be Crucified three ways; by the Jews actually, in the Sacrament Declaratively, and by Unbelievers at his Table Interpretatively. Among sins, Blood-guiltiness is reckoned one of the most heinous, and of all Blood-guiltiness to be guilty of the Blood of Christ, is a sin of the deepest guilt, and will be avenged with the most dreadful punishment, 1 Cor. 11. 27, 29. If Vengeance be taken sevenfold on ⟨image 3⟩