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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.
It is a most weighty Note that a 1worthy Pen sets upon this Scripture; they discerned not the Body of his Son Jesus Christ in his Ordinances; but instead of that holy, reverend, and deep-dyed behaviour which was due to it, both from their inner and outward man, as being a Creature of the highest and deepest Sanctification that ever God Sanctified; Sanctified not only to a more excellent and glorious condition, but also to many ends and purposes, of far higher and dearer concernment, both for the glory of God, and ⟨p. 11⟩benefit of men themselves, than all other Creatures whatsoever, whether in Heaven or Earth: they handled and dealt by it in both kinds, as if it had been a common or unsanctified thing: Thus they discerned not the Lords Body.
It is a most weighty Note that a 1worthy Pen sets upon this Scripture; they discerned not the Body of his Son Jesus Christ in his Ordinances; but instead of that holy, reverend, and deepdyed behaviour which was due to it, both from their inner and outward man, as being a Creature of the highest and deepest Sanctification that ever God Sanctified; Sanctified not only to a more excellent and glorious condition, but also to many ends and purposes, of far higher and dearer concernment, both for the glory of God, and ⟨p. 11⟩benefit of men themselves, than all other Creatures whatsoever, whether in Heaven or Earth: they handled and dealt by it in both kinds, as if it had been a common or unsanctified thing: Thus they discerned not the Lords Body.
- 1Mr. Tho. Goodwins Epistle to Mr. Fenners Sermon.
And as they discerned not his Body, so neither did God (in some sense) discern theirs; but in those sore Strokes, and heavy Judgments which he inflicted on them, had them in no other regard or consideration, than as if they had been the bodies of his Enemies, the bodies of wicked and sinful men. Thus drawing the model and plot-form of their punishment (as usually he doth) from the structure and proportion of their sin.