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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.
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.
Thirdly: Reform. Do your first works again. O Christian, consider thy heart is sunk deeper into the world than it was wont to be. Thy duties are fewer, and thy zeal and affection to God much abated. Return, return, O back-sliding soul, and labour to recover thy first love to Christ, what-ever pains it cost thee.
Thirdly: Reform. Do your first works again. O Christian, consider thy heart is sunk deeper into the world than it was wont to be. Thy duties are fewer, and thy zeal and affection to God much abated. Return, return, O back-sliding soul, and labor to recover thy first love to Christ, what-ever pains it cost thee.