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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.
There are two things of special concernment to the Reader, when thou art to address thy self to any solemn duty, especially such as this:
1. Prepare for thy duty diligently.
2. Rely not upon thy preparations.
First: Prepare with all diligence for thy duty; take pains with thy dull heart, cleanse thy polluted heart; compose thy vain heart; remember how great a presence thou art approaching. If Augustus thus reproved 1one that entertained him without suitable preparation, saying, I did not think we had been so familiar; much more may thy God reprove thee for thy careless neglect of due preparation for him.
First: Prepare with all diligence for thy duty; take pains with thy dull heart, cleanse thy polluted heart; compose thy vain heart; remember how great a presence thou art approaching. If Augustus thus reproved