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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 3: 3. 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.
The Learned Gerson gives an instance of one that had been long upon the borders of despair, and at last sweetly assured and settled; and being asked how he attained that Assurance, he answered, Non ex nova aliqua revelation, &c. Not by any new revelation, but by subjecting my understanding to, and comparing my heart with the written word.
The Learned Gerson gives an instance of one that had been long upon the borders of despair, and at last sweetly assured and setled; and being asked how he attained that Assurance, he answered, Non ex nova aliqua revelatione, &c. Not by any new revelation, but by subjecting my understanding to, and comparing my heart with the written word.
And Mr. Roberts in his Treatise of the Covenants, speaks of another that so vehemently panted after the Sealings ⟨p. 72⟩and Assurance of the love of God to his soul, that for a long time he earnestly desired some Voice from Heaven; and sometimes walking in the solitary Fields, earnestly desired some miraculous voice from the Trees or Stones there: This was denied him, but in time a better was afforded in a scriptural way.
Now to resolve the Query out of these distinctions.