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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.
Thirdly: The depth and measure of it.
First: The spring and principle of Repentance expressed in these words, 1They shall look upon me whom they have pierced. This looking upon Christ, is an act of faith, for so it is described in Scripture, Joh. 6. 40. Isa. 45. 22. and it respects Christ crucified as its proper object; yea, and that by them, not only as their Progenitors involved them in that guilt, by entailing it on them, but as their own sins were the ⟨p. 166⟩meritorious cause of his death and sufferings. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced.
First: The spring and principle of Repentance exprest in these words, 1They shall look upon me whom they have pierced. This looking upon Christ, is an act of faith, for so it is described in Scripture, Joh. 6. 40. Isa. 45. 22. and it respects Christ crucified as its proper object; yea, and that by them, not only as their Progenitors involved them in that guilt, by entailing it on them, but as their own sins were the ⟨p. 166⟩meritorious cause of his death and sufferings. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced.
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