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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.
VII. Inference.
To conclude this Use, How sure and dreadful will be the condemnation of all those in the day of the ⟨p. 47⟩Lord, who obstinately persist and continue in sin, under the Convictions and Condemnations of their own consciences!
Poor wretches, you are condemned already, Joh. 3. 18. Condemned by the Law of God, and by the sentence of your own Consciences. What thy own Conscience saith according to Gods Law, God will confirm, and make it good, 1 Joh. 3. 20. If our hearts condemn w, God is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all things. His sentence will be as clear, as it will be terrible; for in the last Day the Books will be opened; the book of Gods Omniscience, and the book of thine own Conscience. Now the book of Conscience is as it were a Transcript or Counterpart of Gods book, for thee to keep in thine own bosom: Now when Gods book and thy own book shall be compared, and found exactly to agree, there can be no farther dispute of the Equity of the account. O when God shall charge thee saying, thou knewest this and that to be sin, and yet thy lusts hurried thee on to commit it; Is it not so? Look sinner into thine own book, and see if thy Conscience have not so charged it to thy Account. Thou knewest Prayer was thy duty, when thou neglectedst it; and over-reaching the lgnorant, Credulous and Unwary, was thy sin, when the love of gain tempted thee to it, You knew I had plainly told you Thest, Uncleanness, Drunkenness, and Extortion, would bar you out of the Kingdom of Christ and of God,