Sacramental Meditations and Advices Grounded Upon Scripture Texts; Proper for Communicants to Prepare Their Hearts Excite Their Affections Quicken Their Graces and Enliven Their Devotions on Sacramental Occasions Together with a Sort Christian Directory; - nuovo libro

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: faith, reprefenting all that the Lamb of God fuffered, in the grenteft certainty and cleareft evidence, that it is no devifed fable. O for an applying and appropriating act of faith, to bring all home to myfelf, and fay, He loved me, and gave himfelf for me ! What a hard heart is this I have beyond others! Can I fee others weeping and mourning over a flain Saviour, that fit at the fame table, eat the fame bread, and drink the fame cup with me, and cannot I get one tear ! Is God come with his bottle, waiting for 'my tears ? Do others .pour into it plentifully, and have I not one tear to drop into God's bottle ? Lord, what means the hardnefs of my heart, and the drynefs of my eyes, at the fight of my Saviour's bleeding and dying for my fins ? When fhould I mourn and weep, if not now ? Was there ever fuch an occafion for tears ? Oh! doth God intend to referve weeping for Hie in hell, where tears fhall never be dried up ! this is what I deferve, if I be hard hearted and dry-eyed now. But, Lord, pity my hardnefs, and give me fuch a look as thou gavert. Peier, that may caufe me to weep, and weep bitterly, at the remembrance of my fins which pierced ihee. MEDITATION .VIII. From Luke xxii. 6t, 62, The Lad luokcj upon Pelery?And Peter ilent out and 'wept Utterly. Lord, fince my looks to thee are fo flight, ib wavering and inconftant, that they make little or no im- preffion upon my hard heart, do thou vouchfafe to look upon me with pity and with power; for thy looks are efficacious, and melt down the hardeft heart. O .give me fuch a look as, thou gaveft Peter, when he denied thee, and btgan to curfe and fwear: A look that, may bring me to myfelf, and caufe me to weep, and weep .bitterly at the remembrance cf my .fins, my unbdief, my pride, my paflion, my difobedience, which ...