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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.
Secondly: The flowing spring of Repentance is here, if there be any fire 1that can melt, or hammer that can break a hard heart, here it is, Zech. 12. 10. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and mourn. Nothing lays ⟨p. 15⟩a gracious soul lower in it self, than to see how low Christ was laid in his Humiliation for it.
Secondly: The flowing spring of Repentance is here, if there be any fire 1that can melt, or hammer that can break a hard heart, here it is, Zech. 12. 10. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and mourn. Nothing laies ⟨p. 15⟩a gracious soul lower in it self, than to see how low Christ was laid in his Humiliation for it.
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Here the evil of sin is also represented in the clearest glass that ever the eye of man saw it in. The sufferings of the Son of God discover the evil of sin more than the everlasting torments of the Damned can do. So that if there be but one drop of Spiritual sorrow in the heart of a Christian, here me-thinks it should be seen dropping from the eye of Faith.