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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.
This Scripture hath also an awaking 1voice to all that come nigh to God in any of his Ordinances, especially in this Ordinance. O Christians! bethink your selves where you are, and what you are doing: Know you not that the King comes in to see the Guests? Yea, you do know that God is in this place; an awful Majesty beholds you. All the Churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the heart and the reins, and will give to every one as his work shall be, Rev. 2. 23.
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Thy business, Christian, is not with Men, but with God, and the solemnest business that ever thy thoughts were versant about. Thou art here to recognize the sufferings of thy Redeemer, to take the seals and pledges of thy Salvation from the hand of his spirit; imagine the same thing which is now to be done spiritually, and by the ministry of Faith, were but to be performed visibly and audibly by the ministry of thy sense.
Suppose Jesus Christ did personally show himself at this Table, and were ⟨p. 19⟩pleased to make himself known in breaking of Bread, as once he did to the Disciples. Suppose thou sawest him appear at this Table, as he now doth appear in Heaven, as a Lamb that had been slain? Imagine thou heardest him say, Believer, this precious Blood of mine was shed for thee; there be Millions of Men and Women in the world naturally as good as thee, that shall have no interest in it, or benefit by it: But for thee it was shed, and for the remission of thy sins; my Blood was the only thing in the world that was equal to the demerit of thy sins, and it hath made full satisfaction to God for them all: Thy sins which are many, are therefore forgiven thee; my Blood hath purchased the eternal Inheritance of glory for thee; and this day I am come to deler the seals and pledges thereof into thine hand. Take then the seals of eternal Salvation this day: Take thine own Christ with all that he is and hath in thine arms: Whatever I have suffered, done, or procured for any of my Saints, I have suffered, done, and procured the same for thee. Why, all this is here to be done as really and truly, though in a