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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 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.
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 plat-form of their punishment (as usually he doth) from the structure and proportion of their sin.
Thus the Just and Righteous God builds up the breaches that we make upon the honour belonging to the body of his Son, with the ruins of that honour which he had given unto ours, in health, strength, life, and many other outward comforts and supports.
O then what need is there of a most awful and composed spirit, when we approach the Lord in this Ordinance!