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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.
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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Fourthly and lastly, Consider the designs and aims of the Spirit in his 1Sealing thy soul, which are
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1. To secure Heaven to thee for ever.