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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.
The Uses follow.
If the love of Christ pass knowledge, 1O! then admire it; yea, live and die in the wonder and admiration of the love of Christ. As it is a sign of great weakness to admire small and common things, so it speaks great stupidity not to be affected with great and unusual things. O Christian, if thou be one that conversest with the thoughts of this love, thou canst not but admire it; and the more thou studiest, the more still wilt thou be astonished at it. And among the many Wonders that will appear in the love of Christ, these two will most of all affect thee, viz.
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1. That ever it pitched at first on thee. 2. That it is not by so many sins quenched towards thee.
1. That ever it pitcht at first on thee. 2. That it is not by so many sins quencht towards thee.
(1.) 'Tis admirable that ever the love of Christ pitched at first upon thee; for are there not millions in the world of sweeter tempers, and better constitutions than thy self, whom it hath past by, and yet embraced thee? Lord (said the Disciples) how is it that thou wilt manifest thy self unto us, and not unto the world?