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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.
Secondly: The conclusion or truth 1sealed, is ravishing and transporting. All Christians vehemently pant for it, few have the enjoyment of it for any long continuance. But whilst they do enjoy it, they enjoy Heaven upon Earth, a joy beyond all the joys of this world. To have this conclusion surely Sealed, -Christ is mine, my sin is pardoned, I shall be saved from wrath, through him: O, what is this! what is this!
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Thirdly: Consider the subject, or person Sealed, a poor sinful wretch that 1hast ten thousand times over grieved the good Spirit of God, by whom notwithstanding thou art Sealed to the day of Redemption: Thou hast by every sin deserved to be sealed up to Damnation: Thou hast reason to account and esteem thy self much inferior in graces and duties to many thousands of the Saints that are panting after this privilege, and cannot obtain it: O, the riches of the goodness of God!
Thirdly: Consider the subject, or person Sealed, a poor sinful wretch that 1hast ten thousand times over grieved the good Spirit of God, by whom notwithstanding thou art Sealed to the day of Redemption: Thou hast by every sin deserved to be sealed up to Damnation: Thou hast reason to account and esteem thy self much inferior in graces and duties to many thousands of the Saints that are panting after this priviledge, and cannot obtain it: O, the riches of the goodness of God!
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