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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.
1. Query. Wherein lies the resemblance and agreement 1betwixt the Flesh and Blood of Christ, and material Meat and Drink?
- 11. Query.
Sol. The agreement is manifest in the following particulars.
First: Meat and Drink is necessary to support Natural life, we cannot live without it. Upon this account Bread is called the Staff and Stay, (i. e.) the support of the natural spirits which do ⟨p. 180⟩as much lean and depend upon it, as a feeble man doth upon his staff, Isa. 3. 1. But yet how necessary soever it be, the Flesh and Blood of Christ is more indispensably necessary for the life of our souls, Joh. 6. 53. Except ye eat the Flesh of the Son of man, and drink his Blood, ye have no life in you. Our souls have more absolute need of peace and pardon by Christ, than our bodies have of meat and drink. Better our bodies were starved and famished, than our souls damned and lost for ever.