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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
THE THIRD MEDITATION UPON › Doct. › Section 3 › Subsection 4
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If evil be present with us, yea, inherent in us, in our best duties, what 1need had Christians then to watch against ⟨p. 52⟩the external occasions of sin, and to keep a close guard upon their senses, especially when they have to do with God!
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There's danger enough from within, you need not open another door from without. This natural corruption is too active in it self, if there be no irritation by any external occasion; how much more when the eye and ear are open and unguarded, and occasions are offered it from without. Watching is half the work of a Christian, whilst he is praying, Eph. 6. 18. The Arabian Proverb is as instructive as it is mystical; shut the Windows that the House may be light.
There's danger enough from within, you need not open another door from without. This natural corruption is too active in it self, if there be no irritation by any external occasion; how much more when the eye and ear are open and unguarded, and occasions are offer'd it from without. Watching is half the work of a Christian, whilst he is praying,