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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
Sermon 1 › Application 2 › Consideration 8: VIII. CONSIDERATION.
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VIII. CONSIDERATION.
Consider the great hazard of these precious seasons you now enjoy. Opportunity is the golden spot of time, but it is tempus •abi•e, a very slippery and uncertain thing; great and manifold are the hazards and contingencies attending it. Your life is immediately uncertain, your breath continually going in your nostrils, and that which is every moment going, will be gone at last. The Gospel is as uncertain as your life; God hath made no such settlement of it but that he may a• pleasure remove it, and will certainly do so, if we thus trifle under it; 'tis but a Candlestick, though a golden one, Rev. 2. 5. and that you all know is a moveable thing; and not only your life and the means of your eternal life, I mean the Gospel, are uncertain things; but even the motions and strivings of the Spirit with your Souls are as uncertain as either, Phil. 12. 13. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. That God now works with you is matter of great encouragement to your work; but that he works at his own pleasure, as a free arbitrary agent who can cease when he pleases, and never give one knock at your hearts more, should make you work with fear and trembling.
Consider the great hazard of these precious seasons you now enjoy. Opportunity is the golden spot of time, but it is tempus •abi•e, a very slippery and uncertain thing; great and manifold are the hazards and contingencies attending it. Your life is immediately uncertain, your breath continually going in your nostrils, and that which is every moment going, will be gone at last. The Gospel is as uncertain as your life; God hath made no such settlement of it but that he may a pleasure remove it, and will certainly do so, if we thus trifle under it; 'tis but a Candlestick, though a golden one,