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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.
What do I here upon my knees, saith a Christian, if I may not see God. Duties are nothing to me without God: The World and all its comforts are dry and tasteless things to me without God: His manifested favour, and sealed love are the very life of my life, and from this the corruption of my own heart have cut me off.
What do I here upon my knees, saith a Christian, if I may not see God. Duties are nothing to me without God: The World and all its comforts are dry and tasteless things to me without God: His manifested favour, and sealed love are the very life of my life, and from this the corruptiun of my own heart have cut me off.
Thirdly: By these things the beauty and excellency of duties are defaced. These dead flies spoil that excellent Ointment; for wherein consists the ⟨p. 47⟩beauty and true excellencies of duties, but in that spirituality & Heavenly temper of soul, with which they are performed? This makes them suitable to their object, Joh. 4. 24. take away spirituality from duties, and then you may number them among your sins, and the matters of your shame and sorrow. Take away the heart from duty, and what remains but a dead carcass, without life or beauty?
Thirdly: By these things the beauty and excellency of duties are defaced. These dead flies spoil that excellent Oyntment; for wherein consists the ⟨p. 47⟩beauty and true excellencies of duties, but in that spirituality & Heavenly temper of soul, with which they are performed? This makes them suitable to their object, Joh. 4. 24. take away spirituality from duties, and then you may number them among your sins, and the matters of your shame and sorrow. Take away the heart from duty, and what remains but a dead carcass, without life or beauty?