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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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Thirdly: Doth not the unbelief of 1your hearts show it self in your deeper thoughtfulness and great anxieties about earthly things, Matth. 6. 30. We pretend we have trusted God with our souls to all Eternity, and yet cannot trust him for our daily bread. We bring the evils of to morrow upon to day; and all because we cannot believe more.
Thirdly: Doth not the unbelief of 1your hearts shew it self in your deeper thoughtfulness and great auxieties about earthly things, Matth. 6. 30. We pretend we have trusted God with our souls to all Eternity, and yet cannot trust him for our daily bread. We bring the evils of to morrow upon to day; and all because we cannot believe more.
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O Reader, how much better were it to hear such questions as these from thee; how shall I get an heart suitable to the mercies I do enjoy? How shall I duly improve them for God? What shall I render to the Lord for all his goodness? This would better become thee, than to afflict thy self with what ⟨p. 142⟩shall I eat, what shall I drink, or wherewithal shall I be clothed?
O Reader, how much better were it to hear such questions as these from thee; how shall I get an heart suitable to the mercies I do enjoy? How shall I duely improve them for God? What shall I render to the Lord for all his goodness? This would better become thee, than to afflict thy self with what ⟨p. 142⟩