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Englands duty under the present gospel liberty from Revel. III, vers. 20
Englands duty under the present gospel liberty from Revel. III, vers. 20 : wherein is opened the admirable condescension and patience of Christ in waiting upon trifling and obstinate sinners, the wretched state of the unconverted, the nature of evangelical faith ..., the riches of free grace in the offers of Christ ..., the invaluable privileges of union and communion granted to all who receive him ... / by John Flavell ...Englands duty under the present gospel liberty from Revel. III, vers. 20 : wherein is opened the admirable condescension and patience of Christ in waiting upon trifling and obstinate sinners, the wretched state of the unconverted, the nature of evangelical faith ..., the riches of free grace in the offers of Christ ..., the invaluable priviledges of union and communion granted to all who receive him ... / by John Flavell ...
London: printed for Matthew Wotton, 1689
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.
III. Inference.
How sweet and desirable is the society of the Saints! it must needs be desirable to walk with them, who walk with God, 1 John 1. 3. No such companions as the Saints. What benefit or pleasure can we find in converses with sensual worldlings? All we can carry away out of such company is guilt, or grief. All my delights, saith David, is in the Saints, and in the excellent of the Earth, which excel in virtue, Psal. 16. 3. And their society would certainly be much more sweet and desirable than it is, did they live more in Communion with God than they do. There was a time when the Communion of the Saints was exceeding lovely, Mal. 3. 16. Acts 2. 46, 47. The Lord restore it, to its primitive glory and sweetness.
How sweet and desirable is the society of the Saints! it must needs be desirable to walk with them, who walk with God, 1 John 1. 3. No such companions as the Saints. What benefit or pleasure can we find in converses with sensual worldlings? All we can carry away out of such company is guilt, or grief. All my delights, saith David, is in the Saints, and in the excellent of the Earth, which excel in vertue, Psal. 16. 3