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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
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V. Inference.
Lastly, If there be so much delight and pleasure in our imperfect and often interrupted Communion with God here; O then, what is Heaven! What are the immediate visions of his face in the perfect state? 1 Cor. 2. 9. Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. You have heard glorious and ravishing reports in the Gospel of that blessed future state, things which the Angles desire to look into. You have felt and tasted joys unspeakable, and full of glory, in the actings of your faith and love upon Christ; yet all that you have heard, and all that you have felt and tasted in the way to glory, falls so short of the perfection and blessedness of that state, that Heaven will and must be a great surprise to them that have now the greatest acquaintance with it. Though the present comforts of the Saints are sometimes as much as they can bear, for they seem to reel and stagger under the weight of them, Cant. 2. 5. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, I am sick of love. Yet, I say, these high tides of present joy, are but shallows to the joys of his immediate presence, 1 Cor. 13. 12. And as they run not so deep, so are they not constant and continued as they shall be above, 2 Thes. 4. ult. Ever with the Lord. And thus much for Information.
Lastly, If there be so much delight and pleasure in our imperfect and often interrupted Communion with God here; O then, what is Heaven! What are the immediate visions of his face in the perfect state?