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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 3 › DOCTRINE. › Bar 6: Sixth Bar.Sermon 3 › DOCTRIN. › Bar 6: Sixth Bar.
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Sixth Bar.
The Sixth and last sin barring up the Heart against Christ, is a strong prejudice against holiness, and the strict duties of Religion. Thus in the very infancy of Christianity the World was scared and driven off from Religion by the common prejudices that lay upon the Professors ⟨p. 56⟩of it, Acts, 28. 22. As concerning this Sect we know that every where it is spoken against.
The Sixth and last sin barring up the Heart against Christ, is a strong prejudice against holyness, and the strict duties of Religion. Thus in the very infancy of Christianity the World was scared and driven off from Religion by the common prejudices that lay upon the Professors ⟨p. 56⟩of it, Acts, 28. 22. As concerning this Sect we know that every where it is spoken against.
Thus Justin Martyr complains, that Christians were every where condemned [Greek or Hebrew] by common same; and upon this account Christ pronounces a woe upon the World because of offences, Matth. 18. 7. Alas! it will be the ruin of Thousands; some have sucked in such prejudicate Opinions and vile Notions of Religion, and its Professors, as makes them irreconcilable enemies to it. Satan hath dressed it up in their fancies in such an odious form and representation that makes them loath both name and thing. These prejudices are drawn from various things; sometimes from the necessary duties of Christianity, which are laid as crimes upon the people of God,