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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.
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Is God so near to his People above 1all others in the world? how good is it to be near them that are so near to God. O, it would do a mans heart good to be near that Person who hath lately had God near to his soul. Well might David say; Psal. 16. 3. All my delight is in the Saints, and in the Excellent of the Earth. And again, Psal. 119 63. I am a Companion of all such as fear thee. O, this is the beauty of Christian fellowship; this is the glory of ⟨p. 31⟩that Society; not the communication of their gifts, but the Savour of God on their Spirits. If any thing be alluring in this World, this is, 1 Joh. 1. 3. That ye may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Christ Jesus. It's said, Zech. 8. 23. of the Jews, the time shall come when there shall be such a presence of God among that People, that ten men out of all Languages shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew; saying, we will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.
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