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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.
O how good is it for men to be brought into the straights of affliction sometimes? Had not this man fallen into this distress, it's not like that he had (at least not so soon) arrived either to the sense of his grace, or the weakness of it.
In the words we may note these three parts.
First: A profession of his Faith, Lord I believe.
Secondly: A sense of the weakness 1of his Faith, Help thou my unbelief.
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Thirdly: The affection with which 1