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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.
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.
In this one verse we have the two noble acts of Faith displaid; its direct act call'd Trusting, and its reflex act, which in order of nature and time ⟨p. 59⟩follows it, and is implied in the word Sealing.
In the latter clause (to which I shall confine my Meditations) four things must be remarked, viz.
The Subject of Assurance. The Nature of Assurance. The Author of Assurance. The Quality of Assurance.
The Subject of Assurance, which is and can be no other than a soul that 1hath closed with Christ by Faith, reflex acts necessarily presuppose direct ones. Never was any Unbeliever Sealed, except to Damnation: Assurance is peculiarly the Prerogative of Believers.