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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.
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This Scripture hath also an awaking 1voice to all that come nigh to God in any of his Ordinances, especially in this Ordinance. O Christians! bethink your selves where you are, and what you are doing: Know you not that the King comes in to see the Guests? Yea, you do know that God is in this place; an awful Majesty beholds you. All the Churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the heart and the reins, and will give to every one as his work shall be, Rev. 2. 23.
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Thy business, Christian, is not with Men, but with God, and the solemnest business that ever thy thoughts were versant about. Thou art here to recognize the sufferings of thy Redeemer, to take the seals and pledges of thy Salvation from the hand of his spirit; imagine the same thing which is now to be done spiritually, and by the ministry of Faith, were but to be performed visibly and audibly by the ministry of thy sense.