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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
THE TENTH MEDITATION UPON › Application 1: 1. Use of Information.
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. Use of Information.
First: See here the love of a Saviour, that Heavenly Pelican, who feeds us ⟨p. 185⟩1with his own Flesh and Blood. You read Lam. 4. 10. of pitiful Women who eat the flesh of their own Children; but where have you read of Men or Women that gave their own flesh and blood for meat and drink to their Children? Think on this you that are so loth to cross and deny your flesh for Christ; he suffered his Flesh to be rent, and his Blood set abroach for you; what love like the love of Christ?
First: See here the love of a Saviour, that Heavenly Pelli•an, who feeds us ⟨p. 185⟩1with his own Flesh and Blood. You read Lam. 4. 10. of pitiful Women who eat the flesh of their own Children; but where have you read of Men or Women that gave their own flesh and blood for meat and drink to their Children? Think on this you that are so loth to cross and deny your flesh for Christ; he suffered his Flesh to be rent, and his Blood set abroach for you; what love like the love of Christ?
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