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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
THE SEVENTH MEDITATION UPON › Doctrine 2 › Application 1: Use 1.
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First: What is our Impatience to 1wait for mercy, and despondency of spirit, if deliverance come not quickly in the outward or inward straights of soul or body, but a plain symptom of unbelief in our hearts. He that believes will not make hast, Isa. 28. 16. He that can believe, can also wait Gods time, Psal. 27. 14.
First: What is our Impatiency to 1wait for mercy, and despondency of spirit, if deliverance come not quickly in the outward or inward straights of soul or body, but a plain symptom of unbelief in our hearts. He that believes will not make hast, Isa. 28. 16. He that can believe, can also wait Gods time, Psal. 27. 14.
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Secondly: And what doth our readiness to use sinful mediums to prevent, 1or extricate our selves out of trouble ⟨p. 141⟩but a great deal of Infidelity lurking still in our hearts; might but Faith be heard to speak, it would say in thy heart, let me rather die ten deaths than commit one sin. It's sweeter and easier to die in any integrity, than to live with a defiled or wounded Conscience. 'Tis nothing but our unbelief that makes us so ready to put forth our hands to iniquity, when the rod of the Wicked rests long upon us, or any eminent danger threatens us,