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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 9: IX. CONSIDERATION.
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IX. CONSIDERATION.
Think what a fearful aggravation it will be, both of your sin and misery, to perish in the fight and presence ⟨p. 23⟩of an offered remedy; to sink into Hell betwixt the outstretched Arms of a compassionate Redeemer, that would have gathered you but you would not.
Heathens, yea Devils will upbraid you in Hell for such unaccountable folly, and desperate madness: Heathens will say, alas, we had but the dim Moon-light of Nature, which did indeed discover sin, but not Christ the Remedy. Ah, had your Preachers and your Bibles been sent among us, how gladly would we have embraced them! Surely, saith God to Ezekiel, had I sent thee to them they would have harkned unto thee, Ezek. 3. 5, 6. Matth. 11. 21. The very Devils will upbraid you; Oh, if God had sent a Mediator in our Nature, we had never rejected him as you have done; but he took not on him the nature of Angels.
Heathens, yea Devils will upbraid you in Hell for such unaccountable folly, and desperate madness: Heathens will say, alas, we had but the dim Moon-light of Nature, which did indeed discover sin, but not Christ the Remedy. Ah, had your Preachers and your Bibles been sent among us, how glady would we have embraced them! Surely, saith God to Ezechiel, had I sent thee to them they would have harkned unto thee,