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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 3 › Distinction 1: 1. Distinction.
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.
1. Distinction.
We must distinguish the different kinds of the Spirits sealing; all his 1Sealing work is not of one kind, nor to one and the same use and end.
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There is an Objective Seal which distinguishes the person, and a Formal Seal which clears and ratifies his interest in Christ and Salvation. The first he doth in Sanctifying us; the second in Assuring us.
When he Seals us Objectively, that is, when he Sanctifies us really by the infusion of grace, he Seals us by way of distinction from other men, which is one end of Sealing; for though in respect of Gods decree and purpose there was a difference betwixt us and others before time, 2 Tim. 2. 19. And although in regard of Christs intention in his death, there was a difference betwixt us and others,