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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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Seventh Inference.
If Christ be present by way of Spirit and energy in his Ordinances, then there is no reason to despair of the Conversion and Salvation of the greatest of sinners that yet lye dead under the Gospel. What though their Hearts be hard, their Understandings dark, and their Wills never so perverse and obstinate, all must give way and open in the day of Christs power, when his Spirit joins himself with the Word. This makes it an irresistible ⟨p. 43⟩Word; 'tis glorious to observe the hearts of Publicans and Harlots opening and yielding to the voice of Christ, Matth. 21. 31. What were those three thousand persons pricked at the Heart by Peters Sermon, Acts 2. 36. but the very Men that with wicked Hands had crucified the Lord Jesus? And what were the converted Corinthians, but Idolaters turned from dumb Idols, 1 Cor. 12. 2. Whoremongers, Adulterers, Effeminate, &c. 1 Cor. 6. 11. God hath his elect among the vilest of Men: The Gospel will find them out, and draw them home to Christ, when the Spirit of Christ animates and blesseth it. Well might the Apostle therefore say, that the Gospel preached with the Holy Ghost, sent down from Heaven, is an object worthy for Angels to behold with admiration, 1 Pet. 1. 12. What though Satan have strongly fortified their Souls against Christ, with ignorance, prejudice and enmity; yet the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God to pull down these strong holds. Despair not therefore of your carnal and dead hearted relations, bring them to the Gospel upon the encouragement of these words of Christ,