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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.
THE TENTH MEDITATION UPON
John 6. ver. 55. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
IN this context our Lord Jesus Christ makes a most spiritual and excellent discourse to the Jews, about the nature and necessity of faith in him, taking the occasion thereof from the Bread, which a little before he had so miraculously multiplied, and fed them with, raising up their minds to more sublime and spiritual things, and letting them know that Bread, how sweet soever it was, was but a shadow of himself, infinitely ⟨p. 177⟩more sweet and necessary.
IN this context our Lord Jesus Christ makes a most spiritual and excellent discourse to the Jews, about the nature and necessity of faith in him, taking the occasion thereof from the Bread, which a little before he had so miraculously multiplied, and fed them with, raising up their minds to more sublime and spiritual things, and letting them know that Bread, how sweet soever it was, was but a shaddow of himself, infinitely ⟨p. 177⟩more sweet and necessary.