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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.
Fourthly: As the frame Christs spirit 1was in, at his death, should command the most solemn frame upon our spirits, at the recognizing of it, so the things here represented, require and call for the highest exercise of every grace of the spirit in our souls; for we come not thither as idle Spectators, but as active Instruments to glorify God by exercising every grace upon Christ, as Crucified for us.
Fourthly: As the frame Christs spirit 1was in, at his death, should command the most solemn frame upon our spirits, at the recognizing of it, so the things here represented, require and call for the highest exercise of every grace of the spirit in our souls; for we come not thither as idle Spectators, but as active Instruments to glorifie God by exercising every grace upon Christ, as Crucified for us.
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Behold here among the rest,
1. The proper object of Faith. 2. The flowing spring of Repentance. 3. The powerful attractive of Love.