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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.
I. Motive.
The Wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against them that hold the Truth in Unrighteousness, and because there is Wrath beware. Are you truly informed what the Wrath of God is? Who knoweth the power of thine anger? according to thy fear, so is thy wrath, Psal. 90. v. 11. O if the Wrath of a King (who in all his Glory is but a mortal Worm) be as the roaring of a Lyon, and as the Messengers of Death; Prov. 20. 2. Prov. 16. 14. What then is the power of his Wrath, at whose frowns the Kings of the Earth tremble, the Captains and the Mighty Men, shrink like worms into their holes! if the lesser Executions of it by ⟨p. 49⟩Providence in this world, be so dreadful, that men, yea, good men have desired an hiding place in the Grave, till it be past; Job 14. 13. then what is the full execution thereof upon the ungodly in the place of Torments! If the threats and denunciations of it against others, have made an Habakkuk, though assured of personal safety to quiver with his Lips, and tremble in his Bowels; as you see it did, Hab. 3. 16. How much more should those tremble and quiver who are to be the Subjects of it, and not the mere Heralds of it as he was! And (which is more than all) if Jesus Christ who was to feel it but a few Hours, and had the power of the Godhead to support him under it; did notwithstanding, sweat as it had been great drops of blood, and was sore amazed; think with wthy self poor wretch, how shall thy heart endure, or thy hands be strong when thou hast to do with an incensed Deity?