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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 first, is his material or objective Seal, the latter his formal Sealing.
None but the Spirit of God can clear and confirm our title to Christ, for he only searcheth the deep things of God; 1 Cor. 2. 10. and it's his office, Rom. 8. 16. [Greek or Hebrew], to witness with our spirits.
None but the Spirit of God can clear and confirm our title to Christ, for he only searcheth the deep things of God; 1 Cor. 2. 10. and it's his office, Rom. 8. 16. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to witness with our spirits.
This Seal or Witness of the Spirit must needs be true and certain, because Omniscience and Truth are his essential properties: He is Omniscient, 1 Cor. 2. 10. and therefore cannot be deceived himself: He is the Spirit of Truth, Joh. 14. 17. and therefore cannot deceive us; so that his testimony is more infallible and satisfactory than a Voice from Heaven, 2 Pet. 1. 19.