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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 2: 2. 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.
2. Distinction.
The seasons of the Spirits sealing, must be distinguished; and these are 1to some,
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First: Immediately upon the souls first closing with Christ at Conversion, especially when Conversion is wrought at riper age, and is ushered in by a greater degree of the spirit of bondage, and deep inward terrors. Thus the Prodigal (the emblem of a Convert so brought home to God) was entertained with the fatted Calf and Music, but all find not this presently, as some do.
First: Immediately upon the souls first closing with Christ at Conversion, especially when Conversion is wrought at riper age, and is usher'd in by a greater degree of the spirit of bondage, and deep inward terrors. Thus the Prodigal (the emblem of a Convert so brought home to God) was entertained with the fatted Calf and Musick, but all find not this presently, as some do.