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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.
SERMON II.
Revel. 3. 20. Behold [I] stand at the door, &c.
Having in the former Sermon pondered Christs solemn Preface to his earnest Suit; the next thing that comes under our consideration, is the Person soliciting, and pleading for admission into the Heart of sinners, which is Christ himself.
Behold I stand. The only difficulty here is rightly to apprehend the manner of Christs presence in Gospel administrations; for it is manifest the person of Christ was at this time in Heaven; his Bodily presence was removed from this lower World above Sixty years before this Epistle was Written to the Laodiceans. John's banishment into Patmos, is by Eusebius, out of Irenaeus and Clemens Alexandrinus, placed in the Fourteenth Year of the Emperor Domitian, and under his Second Persecution, which was about the Ninety seventh Year from the Birth of Christ.
Behold I stand. The only difficulty here is rightly to apprehend the manner of Christs presence in Gospel administrations; for it is manifest the person of Christ was at this time in Heaven; his Bodily presence was removed from this lower World above Sixty years before this Epistle was Written to the Laodiceans. Iohn's banishment into Patmos, is by Eusebius, out of Irenaeus and Clemens Alexandrinus, placed in the Fourteenth Year of the Emperor Domitian, and under his Second Persecution, which was about the Ninety seventh Year from the Birth of Christ.