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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.
Secondly: As the nature and ends 1of the Ordinance call for the greatest composedness of spirit, so the danger of unworthy receiving should work our hearts to the most serious frames: For if a man be here without his Wedding garment, if he eat and drink unworthily, it is at the greatest peril of his soul that he doth so, 1 Cor. 11. 27. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread, and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily, ⟨p. 10⟩shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord.
Secondly: As the nature and ends 1of the Ordinance call for the greatest composedness of spirit, so the danger of unworthy receiving should work our hearts to the most serious frames: For if a man be here without his Weddinggarment, if he eat and drink unworthily, it is at the greatest peril of his soul that he doth so, 1 Cor. 11. 27. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread, and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily, ⟨p. 10⟩shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord.
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To profane and undervalue that Body and Blood of the Lord, is a sin above measure sinful, and the punishments of such sins will be most dreadful; for still, the more excellent the Blessings are that come by any Ordinance, the more dreadful the Curses are that avenge the abuse of such mercies. How soon may a man draw fearful guilt upon his soul, and dreadful judgments upon his body, by an heedless management of such sacred mysteries! For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep, ver. 30.