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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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V. Demand.
Are not some of you Apostatized from the first Profession, and are not those hopeful blossoms that once appeared upon your Souls blasted and gone? You had quick Convictions, and melting Affections, tenderness in your Consciences, and zeal for Duties: But all is now vanished: Your Affections are grown cold, your Duties omitted, ⟨p. 59⟩though Conscience often bids you remember from whence you are fallen, and do your first Works: You are the persons guilty of this sin.
VI. Demand.
Do none of you presume upon future Repentance, and so make bold with your Consciences for present, thinking to compound that way with it? This argues thee to be a self-condemned Man, and one that holdest truth in Unrighteousness: Thy Sin is present and certain, thy Repentance but a peradventure, 2 Tim. 2. 25. This is an high and a daring way of presumptuous sinning.