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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: 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.
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 meer 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.
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Secondly: The matter of the complaint 1which consists in a double evil he groaned under, viz.
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1. The presence of sin at all times. 2. The operation of sin, especially at some time.