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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.
6. When we were destitute of strength, our selves to help or save, Christ for ungodliness at length, his Life a Ransom gave.
6. WHen we were destitute of strength, our selves to help or save, Christ for ungodliness at length, his Life a Ransom gave.
7. For one that's Righteous, we would grutch to lay our life to stake, And for a good man, it were much, such an exchange to make.
8. But God his matchless love commends in that Christ Jesus dies For us, when we were not his friends, but wretched Enemies.
9. Much more being justified and free, through his own Blood from sin, From wrath to come we saved shall be, even by the life of him.
9. Much more being justified and free, through his own Blood from sin, From wrath to come we sav'd shall be, even by the life of him.