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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.
3. In a word, bestow your best and chiefest love upon Christ, whose love to you passeth all knowledge. Let no creature be loved equally with Christ, but as his love to you passeth all Creature-love, so let yours to him be a matchless love.
Believer, Christ loves thee with an unsearchable love, he loves thee more than the dearest friend, that is, as thine own soul loves thee. He loves thee more than thou lovest thy Child, or the Wife of thy bosom; more than thy soul loves thy body, with which it is so intimately united: And wilt thou content thy self with such poor narrow remiss affections to Jesus Christ. ⟨p. 221⟩O look upon him this day in his red Garments, behold him in the strength of his love breaking through the Curse of the Law, the Wrath of God, the Agonies of Death, to bring home the fruits of his eternal love to thy soul. And whilst thou art beholding and musing upon it, let thy heart melt, thy eyes drop, and thy very soul cry out.
Behold how he loved me!
Blessed be God for Jesus Christ.