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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.
III. Demand.
Have you not seen the Wrath of God revealed from Heaven against other Sinners that have gone before you in the very same tract and course of sin in which you now go, and yet you persist in it, notwithstanding such dreadful Warnings? Thus did Belteshazzar, though he saw all that the God of Heaven had done to his Father, Dan. 5. 20, 21, 22. You have seen great Estates scattered, and their ⟨p. 58⟩Owners that got them by fraud and oppression reduced to beggary; and yet when a temptation is before you, you cannot forbear to take the advantage (as you call it) to get the gain of oppression: You have seen Drunkards clothed with rags, and brought to miserable ends: Adulterers severely punished, their Names and Estates, Souls and Bodies blasted and wasted by a secret, but just stroke of God: Have you taken warning by these strokes of God, and hearkened to the monitions and cautions your Consciences have thereupon given you? If not, thou art the Man that holdest the truth of God in Unrighteousness.
Have you not seen the Wrath of God revealed from Heaven against other Sinners that have gone before you in the very same tract and course of sin in which you now go, and yet you persist in it, notwithstanding such dreadful Warnings? Thus did Belteshazzar, though he saw all that the God of Heaven had done to his Father, Dan. 5. 20, 21, 22. You have seen great Estates scattered, and their ⟨p. 58⟩Owners that got them by fraud and oppression reduced to beggery; and yet when a temptation is before you, you cannot forbear to take the advantage (as you call it) to get the gain of oppression: You have seen Drunkards cloathed with rags, and brought to miserable ends: Adulterers severely punished, their Names and Estates, Souls and Bodies blasted and wasted by a secret, but just stroke of God: Have you taken warning by these strokes of God, and hearkned to the monitions and cautions your Consciences have thereupon given you? If not, thou art the Man that holdest the truth of God in Unrighteousness.