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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.
THE ELEVENTH MEDITATION UPON
Cant. 8. v. 6. Set me as a Seal upon thy heart, as a Seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Cant. 8. v. 6. Set me as a Seal upon thy heart, as a Seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousie is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
THIS Book is a sacred Allegory, the sense thereof is deep and spiritual. Our unacquaintedness with such Schemes and figures of speech, together with the want of spiritual light and experience, makes it difficult to be understood; ⟨p. 193⟩but the Allegory being once unfolded by reason of its affinity with the fancy truth is more easily and affectingly transmitted both to the mind and heart.