{"id":545,"date":"2009-09-24T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2013-06-20T13:55:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T17:55:33","slug":"john-flavel-on-the-value-of-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"John Flavel on the Value of Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/Srj54GUgVQI\/AAAAAAAAAio\/xruEzMFPJz4\/s1600-h\/John+Flavel.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384328096686036226\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 136px; float: left; height: 200px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/Srj54GUgVQI\/AAAAAAAAAio\/xruEzMFPJz4\/s200\/John+Flavel.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>&#8220;This ordinance hath a direct and peculiar tendency to the improvement and strengthening of faith. It is a pledge superadded to the promise for faith&#8217;s sake: Heavenly and sublime mysteries do therein stoop down to your senses, that you may have the clearer apprehensions of them; and the clearer the apprehensions are, the stronger the assent of faith must needs be: By this seal also the promise comes to be more ratified to us; and the firmer the promise appears to the soul, the more bold and adventurous faith is in casting itself upon it.&#8221;\u009d [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Flavel\">Flavel<\/a>, Works, VI:45]<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; Quoted in J. Stephen Yuille. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1601780176?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1601780176\">The Inner Sanctum of Puritan Piety: John Flavel&#8217;s Doctrine of Mystical Union with Christ<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ewcotuaiucqlzdpizexk\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1601780176\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>(Reformation Heritage Books, 2007), p. 102<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This ordinance hath a direct and peculiar tendency to the improvement and strengthening of faith. It is a pledge superadded to the promise for faith&#8217;s sake: Heavenly and sublime mysteries do therein stoop down to your senses, that you may have the clearer apprehensions of them; and the clearer the apprehensions are, the stronger the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;John Flavel on the Value of Communion&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,178,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3002,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}