The Lords Supper is called [Greek or Hebrew],1 or Communion, but Prayer, Meditation, and such like acts of Devotion, are no where called so; thus the Author: But the [Greek or Hebrew], mentioned 2 Cor. 13.12. cannot be spared out of Divine Ordinances, unless we would strip them of their Divine excellency, and write upon them that Ichabod, which is proper to their departure: And what if there were no such word as [Greek or Hebrew], in Scripture? No more was the Nicene [Greek or Hebrew], nor the Ephesine [Greek or Hebrew], the thing it self being there will suffice all men but Chimers, who only follow the sound ⟨p. 224⟩of words: True Believers, as they are [Greek or Hebrew], Partakers of the divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1.4. moulded and formed into the Resemblance and beautiful Image of God, so they have Communion with God in all holy Ordinances; there God meets them, and dispenses out spiritual Blessings to them; there is a divine Converse and Intercourse between God and believing Souls; the drawings of God are answered with the Soul's running, Cant. 1.4. God saith, Seek ye my face, and the Antiphon in the Soul is, Thy face, Lord, will I seek, Psal. 27.8. In Prayer the holy Spirit [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 8.26. lifts over against us to help up our devotions, and the Great God above makes such sweet returns of Grace and Mercy, as if he were present and vocally said, Here I am, Isai. 58.9. While we are devoutly musing, the holy Fire will perhaps drop down from Heaven, and set the Heart as a spiritual Altar, burning and aspiring upwards towards the great Origen of all Goodness and Perfections: In the Dispensations of the Word, oh, what divine Influences and Spirations are there on Gods part! What Compliances and Responses on the Believer's! Justice, it may be, appears ⟨p. 225⟩in a Threatening, and the Heart trembles at the Word; Heaven opens in a Promise, and the Heart leaps up in the triumphs of Faith; the Rays of the divine Purity break forth in a Command, and the holy Principles in the heart sparkle in a beautiful Correspondence thereunto; and is not this Communion with God? Who would not say, God is here of a truth? When God in Ordinances impresseth something of himself upon the Soul, and draws answerable Affections of the Soul to himself, there is Converse with God indeed. Further, a true Believer hath Communion with God in Providences;
The Lords Supper is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,1 or Communion, but Prayer, Meditation, and such like acts of Devotion, are no where called so; thus the Author: But the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, mentioned 2 Cor. 13.12. cannot be spared out of Divine Ordinances, unless we would strip them of their Divine excellency, and write upon them that Ichabod, which is proper to their departure: And what if there were no such word as 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in Scripture? No more was the Nicene 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, nor the Ephesine 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the thing it self being there will suffice all men but Chimers, who only follow the sound ⟨p. 224⟩of words: True Believers, as they are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Partakers of the divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1.4. moulded and formed into the Resemblance and beautiful Image of God, so they have Communion with God in all holy Ordinances; there God meets them, and dispenses out spiritual Blessings to them; there is a divine Converse and Entercourse between God and believing Souls; the drawings of God are answered with the Soul's running, Cant. 1.4. God saith, Seek ye my face, and the Antiphon in the Soul is, Thy face, Lord, will I seek, Psal. 27.8. In Prayer the holy Spirit 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Rom. 8.26. lifts over against us to help up our devotions, and the Great God above makes such sweet returns of Grace and Mercy, as if he were present and vocally said, Here I am, Isai. 58.9. While we are devoutly musing, the holy Fire will perhaps drop down from Heaven, and set the Heart as a spiritual Altar, burning and aspiring upwards towards the great Origen of all Goodness and Perfections: In the Dispensations of the Word, oh, what divine Influences and Spirations are there on Gods part! What Compliances and Responses on the Believer's! Justice, it may be, appears
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