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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.
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.
VII. Demand.
Lastly, Have none of you taken the Vows of God upon you, to reform your course, and break off your iniquities by Repentance, when you have been under dangerous sickness on shore, or dreadful tempests at Sea? Have you not said, Lord, if thou wilt but spare and save me this once, I will never live at the rate I have lived any more: Try me O Lord this once: And yet when that Affliction hath vanished, your purposes and promises to God have vanished with it: You are the Persons that hold the known Truths of God Prisoners in your Souls; and to all these seven sorts of Sinners, this Text may justly be as the hand-writing upon the Wall once was, even a Mene tekel; that may make thy very loins to shake.