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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.
(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, 1 Joh. 3. 21. the greatest deference and precise Obedience is due to its Commands. Its Consolations are of all the most sweet, and its Condemnations (only excepting those by the mouth of Christ in the last Judgment) most terrible. Zuinglius spake not without ground when he said, What Death would I not rather choose? what Punishment would I not rather bear? yea, into what profound Abyss of Hell would I not rather enter, than to witness against my Conscience? 'Tis like he had felt the Terrors of it, to be more bitter than Death. How many have chosen strangling rather than life under the Terrors of Conscience? Wherever you go, Conscience accompanies you. Whatever you say, do, or but think, it Registers and Records in order to the Day of Account. When all Friends forsake thee, yea, when thy Soul forsakes thy Body. Conscience will not, cannot forsake thee. When thy Body is weakest and dullest, thy Conscience is most vigorous and active. Never more life in the Conscience,