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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.
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Thirdly: This in the mean time ⟨p. 45⟩1cannot but be a very grievous affliction and pressure to the gracious soul, to be thus clogged and infested by its own Corruptions in the very season of its communion with God. For,
Thirdly: This in the mean time ⟨p. 45⟩1cannot but be a very grievous affliction and pressure to the gracious soul, to be thus clog'd and infested by its own Corruptions in the very season of its communion with God. For,
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First: By this the soul is rendered very unsuitable to that holy presence it approaches, Hab. 1. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look upon Iniquity. Must the great and blessed God wait upon a poor Worm till it be at leisure to attend him? Must he be forsaken for every trifle that comes in the way of its fancy? Oh, how provoking an evil is this! Surely God heareth not Vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it,