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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.
She doth not (as one speaks) lay by 1diligence, as if all were done; but is of new taken up with as great care to retain and improve this mercy, as before she was solicitous to obtain it. Whether a Believer want or have, whether he be seeking or enjoying, there is still matter of exercise for him in his condition.
- 1Durham in Loc.
Thirdly: Deep abasement and great 1humblings use to follow the eminent appearances of God to the souls of men. Lord (said that Disciple) how is it that thou wilt manifest thy self to us and not unto the world, Joh. 14. 22. When God Sealed the Covenant to Abraham, to be a God to him, at this Abraham fell upon his face, Gen. 17. 1, 2, 3. Never doth a soul lie lower in the dust, and abhor it self, than when the Lord makes the most signal manifestations of his grace and love to it.
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Fourthly: Increased strength follows 1the sealings of the Spirit. New powers enter into the soul, and a sensible improvement of its abilities for duty, or ever I was aware (saith the Spouse) my soul made me as the Chariots of Aminadab,