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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
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.
1. Use for Conviction.
This truth then in the first place, may convince, shame, and humble the 1very best of Christians, who find so little delight in the most easy, sweet, ⟨p. 160⟩and spiritual duties of obedience; when Christ undertook and went through the most difficult task for them with such cheerfulness and readiness, Lo I come, thy Law is in my heart, I delight to do thy will. And yet the work he so applied himself to, was a work full of difficulty, attended with reproach and shame, as well as anguish and pain.
This truth then in the first place, may convince, shame, and humble the 1very best of Christians, who find so little delight in the most easie, sweet, ⟨p. 160⟩and spiritual duties of obedience; when Christ undertook and went through the most difficult task for them with such chearfulness and readiness, Loe I come, thy Law is in my heart, I delight to do thy will. And yet the work he so applied himself to, was a work full of difficulty, attended with reproach and shame, as well as anguish and pain.
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