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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.
Pilates Conscience was convinced of Christ's Innocency; Matth. 27. 18, 19. yet the fear of Coesar hurries him on to the greatest of wickednesses, even to give Sentence against Innocent Blood, yea, the Blood of the Son of God. Darius in like manner, Dan. 6. 14. He knew that Daniel was not only an excellent Person, but that he was entrapped by the Nobles merely for his Conscience, and that to put him to Death, was to sacrifice him to their Malice, this he and his Conscience debated all the day, many encounters he had with it, for the Text saith, He was sore displeased with himself, and set his Heart on Daniel to deliver him, and laboured until the going down of the Sun to deliver him; but after a days sharp fight betwixt him and his Conscience, Lust prevails at last against Light, and returns ⟨p. 14⟩Victor out of the Field in the Evening. So it was with poor Spira, he seemed to hear as it were an inward Voice, Don't write Spira, don't write; but the love of his Estate, Wife, and Children drew his Hand to the Paper, though Conscience struggled hard to hold it back.
Pilates Conscience was convinced of Christ's Innocency; Matth. 27. 18, 19. yet the fear of Coesar hurries him on to the greatest of wickednesses, even to give Sentence against Innocent Blood, yea, the Blood of the Son of God. Darius in like manner, Dan. 6. 14. He knew that Daniel was not only an excellent Person, but that he was entrapt by the Nobles merely for his Conscience, and that to put him to Death, was to sacrifice him to their Malice, this he and his Conscience debated all the day, many encounters he had with it, for the Text saith, He was sore displeased with himself, and set his Heart on Daniel to deliver him, and laboured until the going down of the Sun to deliver him; but after a days sharp fight betwixt him and his Conscience, Lust prevails at last against Light, and returns ⟨p. 14⟩Victor out of the Field in the Evening. So it was with poor Spira, he seemed to hear as it were an inward Voice, Don't write Spira, don't write; but the love of his Estate, Wife, and Children drew his Hand to the Paper, though Conscience struggled hard to hold it back.