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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.
5. Infer.
If God be so near to the heart and 1reins of his People in their duties, O, how assiduous should they be in their duties? It's good for me to draw nigh to God, Psal. 73. 28. Good indeed; the World cannot reward the expense of time at this rates, with all its glory, ⟨p. 32⟩Jam. 4. 8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you: Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh Righteousness; those that remember thee in thy ways, Isa. 64. 5.
If God be so near to the heart and 1reins of his People in their duties, O, how assiduous should they be in their duties? It's good for me to draw nigh to God, Psal. 73. 28. Good indeed; the World cannot reward the expence of time at this rates, with all its glory, ⟨p. 32⟩Jam. 4. 8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you: Thou meetest him that rejoyceth and worketh Righteousness; those that remember thee in thy ways, Isa. 64. 5.