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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.
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?
Fourthly: Faith melts the heart by considering the effects and fruits of the sufferings of Christ, what great things he hath purchased by his Stripes and Blood for poor Sinners; a full and final pardon of sin, a well-settled peace with God, a sure title and right to the eternal Inheritance; and all this for thee, a Law-condemned, a Self-condemned Sinner. Lord, what am I, that such mercies as these should be purchased by such a price for me; for me, when thousands and ten thousands of sweeter dispositions must burn in Hell for ever! Oh, what manner of love is this!
Fifthly: Faith melts the heart by exerting a three-fold act upon Christ Crucified.
First: A realizing act, representing all this in the greatest certainty and evidence that can be. These are no devised fables, but the sure and infallible reports of the Gospel.