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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.
THE FOURTH MEDITATION UPON
Eph. 1. 13. In whom also, after that ye believed, ye were Sealed with the holy Spirit of Promise.
FROM his doxology and solemn Thanksgiving, ver. 3. the Apostle enumerates the principal Christian privileges that gave the occasion of that thanksgiving, among which, this in the Text is not the least, though last named.
FROM his doxology and solemn Thanksgiving, ver. 3. the Apostle enumerates the principal Christian priviledges that gave the occasion of that thanksgiving, among which, this in the Text is not the least, though last named.
In this one verse we have the two noble acts of Faith displayed; its direct act called Trusting, and its reflex act, which in order of nature and time ⟨p. 59⟩follows it, and is implied in the word Sealing.