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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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III. Instance.
How many lye under the condemnations of their own consciences for the lusts of Uncleanness, in which they live? and though they read, and their consciences apply to them such Scriptures as that, 1. Cor. 6. 9. Be not deceived, neither Fornicators, nor Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Effeminate, nor Abusers of themselves with mankind, &c. shall inherit the Kingdom of God; a dreadful Sentence: and that, Heb. 13. 4. Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge: Yet convictions are overborne and stifled by
How many lye under the condemnations of their own consciences for the lusts of Uncleanness, in which they live? and though they read, and their consciences apply to them such Scriptures as that, 1. Cor. 6. 9. Be not deceived, neither Fornicators, nor Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Effeminate, nor Abusers of themselves with mankind, &c. shall inherit the Kingdom of God; a dreadful Sentence: and that, Heb. 13. 4. Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge: Yet convictions are overborn and stifled by
(1.) The Impetuous Violence of carnal Lusts, which permit not of calm debates; but hurry them on to the sin, and leave them to consider the evil and dangerous consequences afterward. Thus they go, as an Ox to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, Prov. 7. 22. Lust besots them. To give counsel now, is but to give Physic in a Paroxysm, or counsel to him that is running a Race, Lust answers conscience as Antipater did one that presented him a Book treating of