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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.
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That what meat and drink is to our bodies, that, and much more than that, the Flesh and Blood of Christ is to believing souls.
Two things require explication in this point.
First; Wherein the resemblance or agreement lies betwixt the Flesh and Blood of Christ, and Meat and Drink.
Secondly: Wherein the former transcends and excels the latter.