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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. The genuine and proper effects and fruits of Sealing, are
1. Inflamed Love. 2. Renewed Care. 3. Deep Abasements. 4. Increase of Strength. 5. A desire to be with the Lord. 6. Improved Mortification to the world.
Wheresoever these are found consequent to our Communion with God, and his manifestations of himself to us therein, they put it beyond all doubt, that it was the Seal of his own blessed Spirit, and no delusion.
First: The Sealings of the Spirit 1cannot but inflame the love of the soul in a very intense degree towards God: One flame doth not more naturally beget another, than the love of God doth kindle the love of a gracious soul to him. We have known and believed the love that God hath to us, 1 Joh. 4. 16. 19. ⟨p. 77⟩When Christ had forgiven much to that poor Woman that had sinned much, and manifested pardoning mercy to her soul; O, how much was her love to Christ inflamed thereby?