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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.
And certainly, we shall find reason enough for it, if we well consider the importance of this Scripture before us, God is greatly to be feared in the Assembly of his Saints, and to be had in Reverence ⟨p. 3⟩of all that are round about him; wherein we have
The 1. Object 2. Subject 3. Mode of divine Worship.
First, The Object of Worship, God; 1God is to be feared: In all divine Worship Men and Angels have to do with God. All things (saith the Apostle) are open and naked to the eyes of him, with whom we have to do, Heb. 4. 13. with whom we have speech or business. So it may be sensed, when we Worship, we draw nigh to God, and that about the greatest concerns and weightiest business in the world.
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