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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.
Christian Reader,
Christ may be said to be Crucified three ways; by the Jews actually, in the Sacrament Declaratively, and by Unbelievers at his Table Interpretatively. Among sins, Blood-guiltiness is reckoned one of the most heinous, and of all Blood-guiltiness to be guilty of the Blood of Christ, is a sin of the deepest guilt, and will be avenged with the most dreadful punishment, 1 Cor. 11. 27, 29. If Vengeance be taken sevenfold on ⟨image 3⟩him that Slew Cain, what Vengeance shall be taken on him that Crucifies afresh the Lord of glory?
CHrist may be said to be Crucified three ways; by the Jews actually, in the Sacrament Declaratively, and by Unbelievers at his Table Interpretatively. Among sins, Blood-guiltiness is reckoned one of the most heinous, and of all Blood-guiltiness to be guilty of the Blood of Christ, is a sin of the deepest guilt, and will be avenged with the most dreadful punishment, 1 Cor. 11. 27, 29. If Vengeance be taken sevenfold on ⟨image 3⟩him that Slew Cain, what Vengeance shall be taken on him that Crucifies afresh the Lord of glory?
The heaviest blow of Divine Justice is still ready to avenge the Abuse of the best mercy. What can the heart of man concei•e more solemn, more sacred, or more deeply affective than the representation of the greatest love of the Father, and the most grievous passions of the Son? What sin can be more provoking to God, than the slight and contempt of those most awful mysteries? and what punishment can be more terrible, than for such a wretched soul to eat and drink Damnation to it self?