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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39680	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 ...	Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing F1183; ESTC R6003	82,969	246

have the wings of a Dove to flie away from this polluted world this unquiet world and be at rest 1. Infer Then certainly there is an Heaven and a 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 2. Infer But O what is Heaven and what ●…hat state of glory reserved for the 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 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 surprizal to you when you come thither for all that It doth not yet appear what we shall be 1 Joh. 3. 1 2. 3. Infer See hence the necessity of casting these 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 Certainly my Friends that which is to be a Vessel to contain such strong liquor as this had need be strongly hooped lest it flie to pieces as old Bottles do when fill●…d with new Wine The state of this Mortality cannot bear the fulness 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 Phil. 3. 21. like unto Christs glorious Body 4. Infer Is God so near to his People above all others in the world how good is it to be near them that are so near to God O it would do a mans heart good to be near that Person who hath lately had God near to his soul. Well might David say Psal. 16. 3. All my delight is in the Saints and in the Excellent of the Earth And again Psal. 119 63. I am a Companion of all such as fear thee O this is the beauty of Christian fellowship this is the glory of that Society not the communication of their gifts but the Savour of God on their Spirits If any thing be alluring in this World this is 1 Joh. 1. 3. That ye may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Christ Jesus It 's said Zech. 8. 23. of the Jews the time shall come when there shall be such a presence of God among that People that ten men out of all Languages shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying we will go with you for we have heard that God is with you Christians if there were more of God upon you and in you others would not be tempted to leave your Society and fall in with the Men of the World they would say we will go with you for God is with you 5. Infer If God be so near to the heart and reins of his People in their duties O how assiduous should they be in their duties It 's good for me to draw nigh to God Psal. 73. 28. Good indeed the World cannot reward the expence of time at this rates with all its glory Jam. 4. 8. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you Thou meetest him that rejoyceth and worketh Righteousness those that remember thee in thy ways Isa. 64. 5. It would be an encouragement indeed if I might thus meet God in the way of duty but that 's but seldom I can so meet God there in sensible powerful out-lets of his grace and love I am mostly dead and cold there I feel not Communion with God going down to my heart and reins First you draw nigh to God but is it in truth or in meer formality God is only nigh to such as call in truth upon him Psal. 145. 18. Secondly If your hearts be sincere yet are they not sluggish Do you stir up your selves to take hold of God many there be that do not Isa. 64. 7. and Cant. 5. 3 5. Thirdly Have you not grieved the Spirit of God and caused him to withdraw from you O remember what Pride and Vanity hath been in you after former manifestations Eph. 4. 30. Fourthly Nevertheless wait for God in his ways his coming upon our souls is oftentimes yea mostly a surprizal to us Cant. 6. 12. Or ever I was aware my soul made me as the Chariots of Aminadab 6. Infer What steddy Christians should all real Christians be For loe what a Seal and Witness hath Religion in the breast of every sincere Professor of it True Christians do not only hear by report or learn by Books the reality of it but feel by experience and have a sensible proof of it in their very hearts and reins their reins instruct them as it is Psal. 16. 7. They learn by spiritual sense and feeling than which nothing can give greater confirmation in the ways of God There are two sorts of knowledge among men one Traditional the other Experimental This last the Apostle calls a knowing in our selves Heb. 10 34. and opposes it to that traditional knowledge which may be said to be without our selves because borrowed from other men Now this experience we have of the powers of Religion in our souls is that only which fixes a mans spirit in the ways of Godliness It made the Hebrews take joyfully the spoiling of their goods no arguments or temptations can wrest truth out of the hand of experience non est disputandum de gustu For want of this many Professors turn aside from truth in the hour of tryal O Brethren labour to feel the influences of