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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.
First, you draw nigh to God; but 1is it in truth, or in mere formality? God is only nigh to such as call in truth upon him, Psal. 145. 18.
First, you draw nigh to God; but 1is it in truth, or in meer formality? God is only nigh to such as call in truth upon him, Psal. 145. 18.
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Secondly: If your hearts be sincere, yet are they not sluggish? Do you stir up your selves to take hold of God? many there be that do not, Isa. 64. 7. and Cant. 5. 3, 5.
Thirdly: Have you not grieved the Spirit of God, and caused him to withdraw from you? O, remember what Pride and Vanity hath been in you after former manifestations, Eph. 4. 30.