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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.
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That the least and lowest measure of Faith, is matter of joy unspeakable to the possessor of it.
The Apostle in the 2 Pet. 1. 1. calls it precious Faith, and it well deserves that Epithet; for the least and lowest degree of saving Faith is of invaluable excellency, as will appear in these particulars.
First: The least degree of saving 1faith truly unites the soul to Jesus Christ, and makes it as really a branch or member of him, as Moses, Abraham, or Paul were.
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