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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 4: 4. 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.
4. Rule.
Faith is the instrument employed in 1breaking the heart. They shall look and mourn. This is the Burning glass that contracts the beams, and fires the affections.
- 14. Rule.
5. Rule.
Lastly: The Wrong sin hath done to God, and the sufferings it hath brought 1Christ under, are the piercing and heart-wounding considerations. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and mourn. The piercing of Christ by our sin, is that must pierce thy soul with sorrow.
- 15. Rule.