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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.
And the fourth tells us he was in an Agony, Luk. 24. 44. all expressing in several emphatical notions and metaphors, the extremity of Christs anguish and torment. This cannot but greatly affect and break the Believers heart.
Thirdly: But then, that which most affects the heart, is Christs Undergoing all this, not only in love to us, but in our room and stead. He suffered not for any evil he had done, for there was no guile found in his mouth, Isa. 53. 4, 5. but the Just suffered for the Unjust, 1 Pet. 3. 18. It was for me, a vile wretched worthless Sinner. It was my Pride, my Earthliness, the hardness of my heart, the corruption of my nature, the innumerable evils of my life, that brought him down to the dust of death. He was made sin for us, who knew no sin, 2 Cor. 5. 21.
Who can believingly eye Christ, as suffering such pains, such wrath, such a curse in the room of such a Sinner, such a Rebel; so undeserving, and so ill-deserving a Creature, and not mourn as for an only Son, and be ⟨p. 171⟩in bitterness as for a first-born?