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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.
Note the restriction and limitation of this glorious privilege; 'tis the peculiar enjoyment of sincere, and upright-hearted Worshippers. Others may have Communion with duties, but not with God in them.
Note the restriction and limitation of this glorious priviledge; 'tis the peculiar enjoyment of sincere, and upright-hearted Worshippers. Others may have Communion with duties, but not with God in them.
But that God comes nigh, very nigh to upright hearts in their duties, is a truth as sensibly manifest to spiritual persons, as that they are nigh the fire when they feel the comfortable heat of it refreshing them in a cold season, when they are almost starved and benumbed with cold.
But that God comes nigh, very nigh to upright hearts in their duties, is a truth as sensibly manifest to spiritual persons, as that they are nigh the fire when they feel the comfortable heat of it refreshing them in a cold season, when they are almost starved and benumed with cold.
Three things make this evident.
First: Sincere souls are sensible of