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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 life of our souls as necessarily depends upon the Flesh and Blood of Christ, as our natural life doth upon meat and drink. Yet beware of a mistake here; the Flesh and Blood, or the Humanity of Christ is not the Fountain of our spiritual life, but the Channel rather, through which it flows to us from his Divinity. By reason of his Incarnation and Death, Righteousness and Life comes to us.
Thirdly: The manner of Predication is very Emphatical, it is meat indeed, and drink indeed; which notes two things.
First: Reality, in opposition to all legal shadows and types.
First: Reality, in opposition to all legal shaddows and types.
Secondly: Transcendent excellency, far surpassing all other food, even Manna it self, which for its excellency is styled Angels food. My Flesh is meat indeed (i. e.) true, substantial, and real food to souls, and choice excellent and incomparable food.
Secondly: Transcendent excellency, far surpassing all other food, even Mannah it self, which for its excellency is styled Angels food. My Flesh is meat indeed (i. e.) true, substantial, and real food to souls, and choice excellent and incomparable food.