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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.
Behold here among the rest,
1. The proper object of Faith. 2. The flowing spring of Repentance. 3. The powerful attractive of Love.
First: The proper object of Faith is 1here. This Ordinance, as a glass, represents to thine eye that glorious Person, of whom the Father said, This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, Matth. 17. 5. Of whom he said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty. This was he that was made Sin for us, who had no Sin, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him, 2 Cor. 5. 21. Who trod the Winepress ⟨p. 14⟩alone, and is here to be seen in his red Garments: Every drop of his precious Blood hath a tongue calling for Faith to behold it, poured forth as a Sacrifice to God for sin. This (saith he) is the cup of the New Testament in my Blood, which was shed for many for the remission of sin.
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