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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 2: 2. 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.
2. Rule.
Godly sorrows are real, sincere, and undissembled. They shall mourn as 1for an only Son. Parents need not the help of an Onion to draw tears on such accounts: O! their very hearts are pierced; they could even die with them. Sighs, groans, and tears are not hanged out as false signs of what is not to be found in their hearts.
Godly sorrows are real, sincere, and undissembled. They shall mourn as 1for an only Son. Parents need not the help of an Onion to draw tears on such accounts: O! their very hearts are pierced; they could even die with them. Sighs, groans, and tears are not hang'd out as false signs of what is not to be found in their hearts.
- 12. Rule.