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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.
3. Infer.
See hence the necessity of casting 1these very bodies into a new mould by their Resurrection from the dead, according to that, 1 Cor. 15. 41. It is sown in weakness, but raised in power. How else could it be a Co-partner with the soul in the ineffable joys of that presence above.
See hence the necessity of casting 1these very bodies into a new mold by their Resurrection from the dead, according to that, 1 Cor. 15. 41. It is sown in weakness, but raised in power. How else could it be a Co-partner with the soul in the ineffable joys of that presence above.
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Certainly my Friends, that which is to be a Vessel to contain such strong ⟨p. 30⟩liquor as this, had need be strongly hooped; lest it fly to pieces, as old Bottles do when filled with new Wine. The state of this Mortality cannot bear the fullness of that joy. Hold Lord, stay thy hand (said a choice Christian once) thy Creature is but a clay Vessel, and can hold no more. If a transient glimpse of God here, be felt in the very reins; if it so work upon the very body by sympathy with the soul, O, what vigorous spiritual bodies doth the state of glory require! And such they shall be,