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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.
(2) Knowledge of the Facts or Matters to be judged, called the Syneidesis. The Conscience of every man keeps a Register of his Actions, Thoughts, and the very Secrets of the Heart.
(3) An Ability and delegated Authority to pass ⟨p. 8⟩Judgment on our selves and Actions according to the Rule and Law of God, called Crisis, Judgment. Here it sits upon the Bench as Gods Vicegerent, Absolving or Condemning as it finds the Sincerity or Hypocrisy of the heart upon Trial. 1 Joh. 3. 20, 21.
(3) An Ability and delegated Authority to pass ⟨p. 8⟩Judgment on our selves and Actions according to the Rule and Law of God, called Crisis, Judgment. Here it sits upon the Bench as Gods Vicegerent, Absolving or Condemning as it finds the Sincerity or Hypocrisie of the heart upon Tryal. 1 Ioh. 3. 20, 21.
Conscience therefore is an High and Awful Power, it is solo Deo minor; next and immediately under God▪ our Judge; riding as Joseph did in the second Chariot, and concerning Conscience he saith to every man, as he once did to Moses with respect to Pharaoh, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh, Exod. 7. 1. The Voice of Conscience is the Voice of God. What it bindeth or looseth on Earth, Clave non errante, is accordingly bound or loosed in Heaven,