A39680:597
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.
Thirdly: This Flesh and Blood of Christ is the great medium of conveyance of all blessings and mercies to the souls and bodies of Believers. It lies as a vast pipe at the Fountain-head of blessings, receiving and conveying them from God to Men, Col. 1. 14. 19.
So then, it being united to the second Person, and so become the Flesh and Blood of God, it being the Sacrifice offered up to God for Atonement and Remission of sins, and the medium of conveying all grace and mercy from ⟨p. 184⟩God the Fountain to the souls and bodies of Believers; how sweet a relish must it have upon the palate of faith? Here faith may taste the sweetness of a Pardon, a full, free, and final pardon of sin, than which nothing in this world can be sweeter to a Sin-burdened Conscience.
So then, it being united to the second Person, and so become the Flesh and Blood of God, it being the Sacrifice offered up to God for Attonement and Remission of sins, and the medium of conveying all grace and mercy from ⟨p. 184⟩God the Fountain to the souls and bodies of Believers; how sweet a rellish must it have upon the pallate of faith? Here faith may tast the sweetness of a Pardon, a full, free, and final pardon of sin, than which nothing in this world can be sweeter to a Sin-burdened Conscience.