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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.
2. Doct.
That the remains of unbelief in gracious hearts do cost them many tears and sorrows.1
- 12. Doct.
There are many things that afflict and grieve the People of God from ⟨p. 137⟩without, but all their outward troubles are nothing to these troubles that come from within.
There are many inward troubles that make them groan, but none more than this, the unbelief they find in their own hearts. This sin justly costs them more trouble than other sins; because it is the root from which other sins do spring; a root of bitterness, bearing wormwood and gall to the embittering of their souls. For,
There are many inward troubles that make them groan, but none more than this, the unbelief they find in their own hearts. This sin justly costs them more trouble than other sins; because it is the root from which other sins do spring; a root of bitterness, bearing wormwood and gall to the imbittering of their souls. For,