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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.
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, Cant. 6. 12.
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Now the wheels of the soul being oiled with the joy and comfort of the Spirit run nimbly in the ways of obedience. The joy of the Lord is your strength.
Now the wheels of the soul being oyled with the joy and comfort of the Spirit run nimbly in the ways of obedience. The joy of the Lord is your strength.
Fifthly: Sealings of the Spirit, inflames 1the desires of the soul after Heaven, and makes it long to go home. Nothing makes death so undesirable to the Saints, as the doubts and fears that ⟨p. 79⟩hang upon their Spirits about their condition. Were their evidences for Heaven clear, and their doubts resolved, they would as the Apostle speaks, desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, Phil. 1. 23. If once the great question of our interest in Christ be throughly decided, and all be clear betwixt us and our God, we shall find Life the matter of Patience, and Death the object of desire.