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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.
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!
Thirdly: As the danger of unworthy receiving should compose us to the greatest seriousness, so the remembrance of that frame and temper Christs spirit was in, when he actually suffered those things for us, should compose our spirits into a frame more suitable and agreeable to his; when we see his death, as it were, acted over again before our eyes, was his heart roving and wandering in that day? Did he not sense and mind the work he was going about? Was his heart like thine, stupid and unaffected with these things? Look but upon that Text, Luke 22. 44. and you shall see whether it were so or no. It's said (when this Tragedy drew nigh, and his Enemies were ready to seize him in the Garden) That being in an Agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was, as it were, great drops of Blood falling down to the ground: And Matth. 26. 38. he saith, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. His soul was full of sorrow, and is thine full of stup•y? God forbid.