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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 Nature of Assurance, he calls it Sealing; an apt metaphor to express 1the nature of it. For Assurance like a Seal, both confirms, declares, and distinguishes; it confirms the grant of God, declares the purpose of God, and distinguishes the person so privileged from other men.
The Nature of Assurance, he calls it Sealing; an apt metaphor to express 1the nature of it. For Assurance like a Seal, both confirms, declares, and distinguishes; it confirms the grant of God, declares the purpose of God, and distinguishes the person so priviledg'd from othermen.
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The Author of Assurance, which is the Spirit, he is the Keeper of the great 1Seal of Heaven, and it's his Office to ⟨p. 60⟩confirm and seal the Believers right and interest in Christ and Heaven, Rom. 8. 16.
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Lastly: The quality of this Spirit 1of Assurance, or the Sealing Spirit, he Seal in the quality of an holy Spirit, and of the Spirit of promise, as an holy Spirit, relating to his previous sanctifying work upon the sealed soul. As the Spirit of promise, respecting the medium or instrument, made use of by him in this his Sealing work; for he Seals by opening and applying the promises to Believers from the Spirits order.