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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.
2. Infer.
Then the acting and exercising of faith is the best expedient to get a tender heart, and raise the dead affections. We are generally full of complaints, how hard, how dead and stupid our hearts are; we are often putting such cases as these, How shall I get a broken heart for sin? How shall I raise my dead heart in duty? Why this is the way; no expedient in all the world like this. Look upon him whom thou hast pierced. 'Tis the melting Argument.
2. Use of Examination.
But that which I especially aim at in this point, is for the trial and examination 1of thy heart, Reader, in the point of true Evangelical Repentance, which is thy proper business at this time: And I will go no further than the Text for rules to examine and try it by.
But that which I especially aim at in this point, is for the tryal and examination 1of thy heart, Reader, in the point of true Evangelical Repentance, which is thy proper business at this time: And I will go no further than the Text for rules to examine and try it by.