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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.
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 1one that entertained him without sutable 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.
- 1Non putabam me tibi tam familiarem.
Secondly: But yet take heed on the other side, that thou rely not upon thy best preparations. It is an ingenious and true note of Luther, speaking to this very point of preparation for the Sacrament; never are men more unfit, than when they 1think themselves most fit, and best prepared for their duty; never more fit, than when most humbled and ashamed in the sense of their own unfitness.
- 1Tunc pessime▪ dispositus quando aptisimé.