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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.
2. Query.
The next thing is to open the transcendent excellency of Christs Flesh 1and Blood, above all other food in the world; and this appears in four particulars:
- 12. Query.
First: This Flesh and Blood was assumed into the nearest Union with the second Person in the blessed Trinity, ⟨p. 183⟩and so is not only dignified above all other created Beings, but becomes the first receptacle of all grace intended to be communicated through it to the Children of men, Joh. 1. 14.