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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.
1. Direction.
Would you be well secured of Christs love to you, and that you are set as a 1seal upon his heart; then exercise and manifest more love to Christ, and let him be much upon your hearts. If it be clear to you, that you have true love to Jesus Christ, you need not at all to doubt, but you are in his heart and in his love. I love them that love me, Prov. 8. 17. And surely you have now before you the greatest motive in the world, to inflame your love to Jesus Christ. Behold him as he here represented to you, wounded for your iniquities, yea, sacrificed to the wrath of God for your Peace, Pardon, and Salvation. O, what manner of love is this? Behold how he loved thee! If Christ's love draw forth thine, it will so far clear thy interest in his love, as it shall engage thy heart in love to him.
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2. Direction.
But seeing the activity of your love will be according to the activity of your faith, therefore in the next place I advise you to make it the main work and business of this hour to exercise your faith upon Jesus Christ; set your selves this day to believe; the more strong the direct acts of your faith shall be, the more clear and comfortable its reflex acts are like to be. There are three distinct offices or employments for your faith at this Table, viz. 1. To realize 2. To apply 3. To infer from the sufferings of Jesus Christ.