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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.
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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, Rom. 7. 21.
Thirdly: This is a disease under which all Christians do labour more or less. There is not a heart so holy in all the world, but is in some degree tainted and infected with this disease. And this hath been evident, not only in ⟨p. 144⟩all Christians of all sizes, but in all the acts of their faith. Jobs faith triumphed in cap. 13. 15. yet had its eclipse and fainting fit, in cap. 19. 20. Abraham was a most renowned Believer, a great pattern and example of faith; oh, how high a pitch did his faith mount to, in Gen. 22. 3. and yet there was a time when it fainted, and failed him as at Gerar. Gen. 20. 2, 9, 10, 11. David in Psal. 27. 1. 23. was not like David in 1 Sam. 27. 1. The faith of Peter shone out like the Sun in a glorious confession, Matth. 16. 16. and yet was not only beclouded, but seemed to be gone down and quite set in Matth. 26. 69. though it afterwards recovered it self.