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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.
First: Faith eyes the dignity of the Person of Christ, who was pierced for 1us; how excellent and glorious a Person he is. In the Captivity, it was for a lamentation that Princes were hanged up by the hands, and the faces of Elders were not reverenced, Lam. 5. 12. We read also the Lamentation of David, 2 Sam. 3. 38. as he followed Abners Hearse. A Prince and a great man is fallen in Israel to day.
First: Faith eyes the dignity of the Person of Christ, who was pierced for 1us; how excellent and glorious a Person he is. In the Captivity, it was for a lamentation that Princes were hanged up by the hands, and the faces of Elders were not reverenced, Lam. 5. 12. We read also the Lamentation of David, 2 Sam. 3. 38. as he followed Abners Herse. A Prince and a great man is fallen in Israel to day.
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But what was Abner, and what were the Princes of Israel to the Son of God? Lo here by faith the Believer sees the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, the only begotten of the Father, equal to God in nature and dignity, he whom all the Angels worship, hanging dead upon the cursed Tree. Faith sees Royal Blood, the Blood of God poured out by the Sword of Justice for satisfaction and reconciliation; and this cannot but deeply affect the believing soul.
But what was Abner, and what were the Princes of Israel to the Son of God? Loe here by faith the Believer sees the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, the only begotten of the Father, equal to God in nature and dignity, he whom all the Angels worship, hanging dead upon the cursed Tree. Faith sees Royal Blood, the Blood of God poured out by the Sword of Justice for satisfaction and reconciliation; and this cannot but deeply affect the believing soul.