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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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Fourthly: 'Tis not this or that degree of unbelief that damns a man, but the power and dominion of it that damns him. Indeed your comfort much depends upon the strength of your faith, but your salvation depends upon the truth of it. Most Christians come to Heaven with a weak and doubting faith, but few with their sails filled with a direct and fresh wind of assurance.
Forthly: 'Tis not this or that degree of unbelief that damnes a man, but the power and dominion of it that damnes him. Indeed your comfort much depends upon the strength of your faith, but your salvation depends upon the truth of it. Most Christians come to Heaven with a weak and doubting faith, but few with their sails fill'd with a direct and fresh wind of assurance.
Fifthly: There is enough in Christ to help thy unbelief. Lord, said this poor man, help my unbelief. He is an excellent Physician, and knows how to relieve and cure thee: Go to him and groan out thy complaint, tell him thy heart is pained and troubled with this disease; thou shalt find him a faithful, skilful and merciful Saviour.
Fifthly: There is enough in Christ to help thy unbelief. Lord, said this poor man, help my unbelief. He is an excellent Physitian, and knows how to relieve and cure thee: Go to him and groan out thy complaint, tell him thy heart is pained and troubled with this disease; thou shalt find him a faithful, skilful and merciful Saviour.
Sixthly: It's but a little while before this, with all other diseases bred by it in thy soul, shall be perfectly healed; Sanctification is a cure begun, Glorification is the cure performed and completed: The former hath destroyed the dominion, the latter will destroy the existence of it in thy soul: When you come to Heaven, and never till then will you find your selves well, and at ease in every part.