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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 5
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5.
If evil be present when we would do good, if it infest us in our best duties; 1then certainly there is no rest to be expected for any of Gods People in this world. Where shall we go to be free from sin; if any where, let us go to our Closets, to our knees, to the Ordinances of God; yea, but even there evil is and will be present with us, if we cannot be free from evil there, it's in vain to expect it elsewhere in this ⟨p. 53⟩world. Only in Heaven Believers rest from sin, when once they are absent from the body, and present with the Lord, sin shall no more be present with them; which should make all that hate sin, long for Heaven, and be willing to be dissolved, and be with Christ.
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2. For Direction.
Let all that experimentally sense and feel what the Apostle here mourns over, carefully attend such directions as may prevent the spoil of their duties by the working of their corruptions in them.