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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.
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 1Gods accesses to them in their duties; they feel his approaches to their spirits. Lam. 3. 57. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, fear not. And what a surprise was that to the Church? Cant. 2. 8. It is the Voice of my Beloved, behold he cometh, &c. Certainly there is a felt presence of God, which no words can make another to understand; they feel the Fountain flowing abundantly into the dry pits, the heart fills apace, the empty thoughts swell with a fullness of spiritual things which strive for vent.
First: Sincere souls are sensible of 1Gods accesses to them in their duties; they feel his approaches to their spirits.