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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: To those that once had, 1but now want this blessing, who say as Job 29. 2, 3. O that it were with me as in days past! The darkness is the greater to you, because you have walked in the light of the Lord. The sum of Christs Counsel in this case is given in three words, Rev. 2. 5. Remember, Repent, Reform.
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First: Remember (i. e.) ponder, consider, compare time with time, and ⟨p. 82⟩state with state, how well it once was, how sad it now is.
Secondly: Repent, mourn over these your sinful relapses; sure you may challenge the first place among all the mourners in the world. Your loss is great. O, better to have lost the light of your eyes, than this sweet light of Gods countenance; your sin hath separated betwixt you and your God, O mourn over it.