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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 2: 2. Use of Exhortation.
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.
Secondly: To feed heartily upon Christ in every Ordinance, and in every Sacrament especially. O that your souls might hear and answer that invitation this day, Cant. 5. 1. Eat, O Friends, drink, yea, drink abundantly, O Beloved.
For Motives I will only hint these three following:
First: Christ is the matter of this Feast. God hath prepared him for your souls. Is any thing in Heaven or Earth so sweet as Christ Sacrificed is? Do not the Angels and Saints in Heaven feast upon him? Surely one drop of Christ's Blood hath more sweetness and excellency in it, than the whole Ocean of all Creature-comforts.
First: Christ is the matter of this Feast. God hath prepar'd him for your souls. Is any thing in Heaven or Earth so sweet as Christ Sacrificed is? Do not the Angels and Saints in Heaven feast upon him? Surely one drop of Christ's Blood hath more sweetness and excellency in it, than the whole Ocean of all Creature-comforts.
Secondly: Don't your graces need it? Have you not a languishing love, a staggering faith, dull and sluggish desires? Look into your hearts, and see what need there is of strengthening the things that are in you, which are ready to die. O feed upon Christ, that your graces may be revived & strengthened.