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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: His Faith gave him a tender melting heart. He cried out, and said with tears. Doth your faith melt your hearts, either in the sense of your own vileness, or of the riches of free grace to such vile Creatures?
First: His Faith gave him a tender melting heart. He cry'd out, and said with tears. Doth your faith melt your hearts, either in the sense of your own vileness, or of the riches of free grace to such vile Creatures?
Secondly: His Faith gave him a deep sense of his remaining unbelief, and burdened his heart with it, Help my unbelief: And sure so will yours, if it be but as a grain of Mustard-seed in you.
Thirdly: His weak Faith carried him to Christ in fervent prayers and cries for his help to subdue unbelief in him, and so will yours if your Faith be right. Oh how often do the People of God go to the Throne of Grace upon that Errand! Help Lord, my heart is dead, vain, and very unbelieving; there's no dealing with it in my own strength: Father, help me.
Thirdly: His weak Faith carried him to Christ in servent prayers and cries for his help to subdue unbelief in him, and so will yours if your Faith be right. Oh how often do the People of God go to the Throne of Grace upon that Errand! Help Lord, my heart is dead, vain, and very unbelieving; there's no dealing with it in my own strength: Father, help me.