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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 2: Use 2.
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.
Use 2.
Yet let not poor Christians so mourn 1as those that have no hope or ground of comfort, even in this case: For,
- 1Use 2.
First: Though there be remains of unbelief in you, yet you have infinite cause to bless God that they are but remains. You once were in unbelief 1 Tim. 1. 13. (i. e.) under the full power and dominion of it. Had God cut you off in that state, you mast certainly have perished. This is the disease, but that was the death of your souls.
Secondly: Though unbelief be in you, yet it is not in you per modum quietis; by way of rest, as it is in all unbelievers, but by way of daily conflict, and as a burden too heavy to be borne. Now though the sin be sad, yet the sorrow for it is sweet; and your conflicts with it brings you under a very comfortable sign of grace,