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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
THE FOURTH MEDITATION UPON › Doct. › Query 2: 2. Query. Why are none Sealed till after Believing?
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.
2. Query. Why are none Sealed till after Believing?1
- 12. Query.
Answ. It cannot be denied but that many persons in the state of nature and unbelief, may have ungrounded confidences, and false comforts built thereupon. This is evident from Matth. 7. 22. Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have not we Prophesied in thy Name. And Joh. 8. 54, 55. of whom ye say that he is your God, and yet ye have not known him. And beyond all is that startling Scripture, Heb. 6. 4, 5.—Who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the Heavenly gift, and were made partakers ⟨p. 65⟩of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the World to come, if they fall away, &c.
Answ. It cannot be denied but that many persons in the state of nature and unbelief, may have ungrounded confidences, and false comforts built thereupon. This is evident from Matth. 7. 22. Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have not we Prophesied in thy Name. And Joh. 8. 54, 55. of whom ye say that he is your God, and yet ye have not known him. And beyond all is that startling Scripture, Heb. 6. 4, 5.—Who were once enlightned, and have tasted of the Heavenly gift, and were made partakers ⟨p. 65⟩