A39660:1296
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. Direction.
If you would escape the guilt and danger of holding Gods Truths in Unrighteousness, then keep your Hearts under the awful sense of the Day of Judgment, when every secret thing must come into Judgment, and Conscience like a Register book is to be opened and examined.
The Consideration of that day gives your Consciences a sevenfold defensative against Sin.
(1.) It provokes every man to get real solid Grace, and not rest in an empty Profession, Matth. 25. and this secures us from formal Hypocrisy. That we be not found foolish Virgins.
(1.) It provokes every man to get real solid Grace, and not rest in an empty Profession, Matth. 25. and this secures us from formal Hypocrisie. That we be not found foolish Virgins.