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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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But, O, what is Heaven! and what 1•hat, state of glory reserved for the ⟨p. 29⟩Saints: Doth a glimpse of Gods presence in a duty, go down to the heart and reins? O, how unutterable then must that be which is seen and felt above, where God comes as near to men as can be? Rev. 22. 3, 4. The Throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it, and his Servants shall serve him; and they shall see his face. And 1 Thes. 4. 17. And so shall we be ever with the Lord. O, what is that! Ever with the Lord. […] Christians, what you feel and taste here by Faith, is part of Heavens glory; but yet Heaven will be an unspeakable surprisal to you, when you come thither for all that: It doth not yet appear what we shall be, 1 Joh. 3. 1, 2.
But, O, what is Heaven! and what 1•hat, state of glory reserved for the ⟨p. 29⟩Saints: Doth a glimps of Gods presence in a duty, go down to the heart and reins? O, how unutterable then must that be which is seen and felt above, where God comes as near to men as can be?