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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.
1. Infer.
Then certainly there is an Heaven and 1a state of glory for the Saints. Heaven is no dream or night Vision. It is sensibly tasted and felt by thousands of Witnesses in this world; they are sure it is no mistake. God is with them of a truth, in the way of their duties. They do not only read of a glorified eye, but they have something of it, or like it in this world. The pure in heart do here see God, Matth. 5. 8. The Saints have not only a Witness without them in the Word, that there is a state of glory prepared for Believers, but they have a witness in themselves. These are not the Testimonies of crazed brains, but of the wisest and most serious of men; not a few, but a multitude of them; not conjecturally delivered, but upon taste, feeling, and trial. O, blessed be God for such sensible Confirmations, such sweet prelibations.
Then certainly there is an Heaven and 1a state of glory for the Saints. Heaven is no dream or night Vision. It is sensibly tasted and felt by thousands of Witnesses in this world; they are sure it is no mistake. God is with them of a truth, in the way of their duties. They do not only read of a glorified eye, but they have something of it, or like it in this world. The pure in heart do here see God, Matth. 5. 8. The Saints have not only a Witness without them in the Word, that there is a state of glory prepared for Believers, but they have a witness in themselves. These are not the Testimonies of craz'd brains, but of the wisest and most serious of men; not a few, but a multitude of them; not conjecturally delivered, but upon taste, feeling, and tryal. O, blessed be God for such sensible Confirmations, such sweet praelibations.