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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.
Answ. Much every way, words cannot express the riches of this mercy; for let us but consider the four following particulars, and you will admire the mercy.
First: Consider whose act and proper 1work Sealing is. God doth not send Angels upon this Errand; though if he did, that would be a great honour to poor dust and ashes, but he sends his Spirit to do it. Oh, the Condescension of the great God to men! this is a greater honour than if millions of Angels were employed about it.
First: Consider whose act and proper 1work Sealing is. God doth not send Angels upon this Errand; though if he did, that would be a great honour to poor dust and ashes, but he sends his Spirit to do it. Oh, the Condescension of the great God to men! this is a greater honour than if millions of Angels were imploy'd about it.
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And then as to certainty and satisfaction, it is beyond all other ways and methods in the world; for in miraculous Voices and Inspirations it's possible there may subesse falsum, be found some Cheat or Imposture of the Devil; but the spirits witness in the heart, suitable to his revelation in the Scripture, cannot deceive us.
And then as to certainty and satisfaction, it is beyond all other ways and methods in the world; for in miraculous Voices and Inspirations it's poss•ble there may subesse falsum, be found some Cheat or Imposture of the Devil; but the spirits witness in the heart, suitable to his revelation in the Scripture, cannot deceive us.