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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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VII. Direction.
Lastly, Beg of God, and labour to get more Christian Courage and Magnanimity, for want of this Conscience, is often overborne against its own Light and Conviction. Christian magnanimity, is Consciences security. 'Tis excellent and becoming a Christian, to be able to face any thing but the frowns of God and his own Conscience. All the ⟨p. 70⟩famous Champions of Truth, and Witnesses for God that came victorious out of the Field of Temptation with safe and unwounded Consciences, were men of Courage and Resolution; see Dan. 3. 16. Heb. 11. 27. Acts 21. 13. and what is this Christian Courage, but the fixed resolution of the Soul to Encounter all dangers, all sufferings, all reproaches, pains and losses in the strength of assisting Grace, that shall assault us in the ways of our duty, and so it stands opposed in Scripture to the Spirit of Fear, Heb. 11. 27. to Shame, Mark 8. 38. to Apostasy, Heb. 10. 39. He must neither be afraid, nor ashamed, nor lose one inch of ground for the sake of what dangers he meets with, and that because he hath embraced Christianity upon those terms, and was told of all this before,