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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.
1. The Inbeing of true Grace. 2. The Activity of true Grace.
1. Examine thy self Reader, whether there be any gracious principle planted in thy soul, whereby thou art alive indeed unto ⟨image 4⟩God. It was an ancient abuse of the Sacrament (condemned and cast out by the Carthaginian Council) to give it unto dead men. 1Dead souls can have no Communion with the living God; no more benefit from this Table, than the Emperors Guests had from his Table, where Loaves of Gold were set before them to eat. There is more than a show of grace in the Sacrament; it hath not only the visible sign, but the spiritual grace also which it represents. See that there be more than a show and visible sign of grace also in thy soul, when thou comest nigh to the Lord in that Ordinance.
1. Examine thy self Reader, whether there be any gracious principle planted in thy soul, whereby thou art alive indeed unto ⟨image 4⟩God. It was an ancient abuse of the Sacrament (condemned and cast out by the Carthaginian Council) to give it unto dead men. 1Dead souls can have no Communion with the living God; no more benefit from this Table, than the Emperors Guests had from his Table, where Loaves of Gold were set before them to eat. There is more than a shew of grace in the Sacrament; it hath not only the visible sign, but the spiritual grace also which it represents. See that there be more than a shew and visible sign of grace also in thy soul, when thou comest nigh to the Lord in that Ordinance.
- 1Concil Carthag. Can. 6. Placuit •t defunctorum corporibus non detur Eucharistia, &c.