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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.
Three things are requisite to Communion with God in duties.
First: Composedness of thoughts.
Secondly: Activity of Faith.
Thirdly: Excitation of affections, and all these are sensibly obstructed by innate Corruption: For by in-dwelling sin.
First: The order of the soul is disturbed by sending forth multitudes of ⟨p. 41⟩1vain and impertinent thoughts to infest and distract the soul in its approaches to God; the sense of this evil gave occasion to that prayer, Psal. 86. 11