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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.
These words are a proposition, in which are these three things observable.
First: The subject, my Flesh and my Blood.
Secondly: The Predicate, it is Meat and Drink.
Thirdly: The manner of Predication, it's Meat indeed, and Drink indeed.
First: The subject, my Flesh, and my Blood, (i. e.) my Humanity; this is meat and drink, true spiritual food. If it be demanded why he had not said, I am meat and drink indeed; but rather chooses to say, my flesh and blood is so; the reason is evident, saith Learned Camero, because if you take away Flesh and Blood from Christ, he cannot be Food or Life to us. For in order to his being so, he must satisfy God for us, and obtain the Remission of our sins; but without shedding of Blood there is no Remission. Now for as much as by the offering up of his Body, and shedding of his Blood, he hath obtained pardon and life for us; therefore his Flesh and Blood is called our Meat and our Drink, that by which our souls live. Which brings us to the second thing.