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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.
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1. Then sure there is but little faith, 1because there is so much deadness and unaffectedness among Professors. A believing sight of Christ will work upon a gracious heart, as a dead Son, a beloved and only Son, uses to do upon a tender Fathers heart.
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Reader, was it ever thy sad lot to look upon such an heart-rending object? Didst thou ever feel the pangs and commotions in thy bowels, that some have felt upon such a sight? Why so will thy heart work towards Christ; if ever thou believingly lookest on him whom thou hast pierced.
Reader, was it ever thy sad lot to look upon such an heart-rending object? Did'st thou ever feel the pangs and commotions in thy bowels, that some have felt upon such a sight? Why so will thy heart work towards Christ; if ever thou believingly lookest on him whom thou hast pierced.