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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.
That 1. Duty irritates it. 2. Satan excites it. 3. God permits it to be so.
First: Corruption is irritated by 1duty, its provoked by that which bridles and purges it: Nothing is found more destructive to Sin, than Communion with God is, and therefore nothing makes a fiercer opposition to all fellowship and communion betwixt the soul and its God, than sin doth. As Waters swell and rage when they are obstructed by a dam, so do our Corruptions, when obstructed and checked by duty. Sin would fain make men leave praying, and Prayer would fain make men leave sinning.
First: Corruption is irritated by 1duty, its provoked by that which bridles and purges it: Nothing is found more destructive to Sin, than Communion with God is, and therefore nothing makes a fiercer opposition to all fellowship and communion betwixt the soul and its God, than sin doth. As Waters swell and rage when they are obstructed by a dam, so do our Corruptions, when obstructed and check'd by duty. Sin would fain make men leave praying, and Prayer would fain make men leave sinning.
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Secondly: As Duty irritates it, so Satan excites it, especially in such seasons. 1When Joshua, the High Priest, stood before the Lord, Satan was seen standing at his right hand to resist him, Zech. 3. 1