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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.
First: Though the presence of evil even 1in thy best duties be sad, yet thy grief and affliction for it is sweet. That is a sad sin, but this is a sweet sign: It is not heart-evils, heart-wanderings in duties, hardness, and unbelief that Hypocrites mourn for, but more gross and external evils. Let this trouble for sin comfort thee, when the presence of sin grieves thee.
First: Though the presence of evil even 1in thy best duties be sad, yet thy grief and affliction for it is sweet. That is a sad sin, but this is a sweet sign: It is not heart-evils, heart-wandrings in duties, hardness, and unbelief that Hypocrites mourn for, but more gross and external evils. Let this trouble for sin comfort thee, when the presence of sin grieves thee.
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Secondly: God accepts through Jesus 1Christ, what you do sincerely, though you can do nothing purely and perfectly, Cant. 5. 1. Your sincerity is your Evangelical perfection; the evil that is present is not imputed; the good that is present, is (notwithstanding that commixed evil) accepted, which is strong consolation.
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