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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.
Did Christ find pleasure in abasement and torment, in suffering and dying for me, and can I find no pleasure in Praying, Hearing, Meditating, and enjoying the sweet duties of Communion with him? Did he come so cheerfully to Die for me, and do I go so dead heartedly to Prayers and Sacraments to enjoy fellowship with him? Was it a pleasure to him to shed his Blood, and is it none to me to apply it, and reap the benefits of it? Oh Lord, what an heart have I? How unsuitable is this frame of heart to the Nature of God, whose essential excellencies make him the supreme delight, the sweet repose, solace, and rest of souls! Psal. 16. 11.
Did Christ find pleasure in abasement and torment, in suffering and dying for me, and can I find no pleasure in Praying, Hearing, Meditating, and enjoying the sweet duties of Communion with him? Did he come so chearfully to Die for me, and do I go so dead heartedly to Prayers and Sacraments to enjoy fellowship with him? Was it a pleasure to him to shed his Blood, and is it none to me to apply it, and reap the benefits of it? Oh Lord, what an heart have I? How unsuitable is this frame of heart to the Nature of God, whose essential excellencies make him the supream delight, the sweet repose, solace, and rest of souls! Psal. 16. 11.
How unsuitable to the principles of regeneration and holiness purposely planted in the soul, to make spiritual performances a pleasure to it!
How unsuitable to the future expected state of glory, which brings the sanctified soul to a sweet complacential rest and satisfaction in God! In a word, how unsuitable is this temper of spirit to the heart of Jesus Christ! O, me thinks I hear Christ thus expostulating with me this day.