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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.
THE THIRD MEDITATION UPON
Rom. 7. 21. I find then a Law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.
THIS Chapter is the very Anatomy of a Christians heart, and gives an account of the most secret frames & inward workings of it, both as to Graces and Corruptions; and this Verse is a Compendium of both; for the words are a mournful complaint, uttered with a deep sense of an inward pressure, by reason of Sin; wherein we are to consider three things.
1. The person complaining, 2. The matter of complaint. 3. The discovery of that matter.
First: The person complaining I 1find: I Paul, though I come not behind the chiefest of all the Apostles, though I have been rapt into the third Heaven, & heard things unutterable; yet I for all that, find in me a Law. Never was any mere man more deeply sanctified; Never any lived at an higher rate of Communion with God; never any did Christ more service in this world; and yet he found a Law of sin in himself.