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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.
If it be so, how great a motive have the People of God before them, to 1make them apply themselves with all cheerfulness and readiness of mind to all the duties of active and passive obedience? O let there be no more grumblings, lazy excuses, shiftings off duty, or dead-hearted and listless performances of them after such an example as this. Be ready to do the will of God; yea, be you also ready to suffer it. Let the same mind be in you, which also was in Christ Jesus. The more pleasure and delight you find in doing or suffering the will of God, the more of Christs spirit is in you, and the more of his Image is upon you. Are not all holy duties expressed in Scripture by the Saints walking with God, Gen. 17 1. and is not this an Angelical life? Can it be a burden to the ear to hear sweet ravishing strains of melody; or to the eye, to behold variety of pleasant and lively colours; or to the palate to relish the delicious sweetness of meats and drinks.
If it be so, how great a motive have the People of God before them, to 1make them apply themselves with all chearfulness and readiness of mind to all the duties of active and passive obedience? O let there be no more grumblings, lazy excuses, shiftings off duty, or dead-hearted and listless performances of them after such an example as this. Be ready to do the will of God; yea, be you also ready to suffer it. Let the same mind be in you, which also was in Christ Jesus. The more pleasure and delight you find in doing or suffering the will of God, the more of Christs spirit is in you, and the more of his Image is upon you. Are not all holy duties expressed in Scripture by the Saints walking with God, Gen. 17 1. and is not this an Angelical life? Can it be a burden to the ear to hear sweet ravishing strains of melody; or to the eye, to behold variety of pleasant and lively colours; or to the palate to rellish the delicious sweetness of meats and drinks.
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