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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
THE NINETH MEDITATION UPON › 2. Use of Examination. › Rule 1: 1. Rule.
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. Rule.
All Evangelical Repentance hath a supernatural spring, I will pour out the ⟨p. 174⟩1spirit of grace, and they shall mourn. Till the spirit be poured out upon us, it is as easy to press water out of a Rock, as to make our hearts relent and mourn. There are indeed natural meltings the effects of an ingenuous Temper, but these differ, in kind and nature, from Godly sorrow.
All Evangelical Repentance hath a supernatural spring, I will pour out the ⟨p. 174⟩1spirit of grace, and they shall mourn. Till the spirit be poured out upon us, it is as easie to press water out of a Rock, as to make our hearts relent and mourn. There are indeed natural meltings the effects of an ingenuous Temper, but these differ, in kind and nature, from Godly sorrow.
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