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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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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, Psal. 69. 10. When I wept and chastened my Soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. Sometimes the groundless and malicious slanders and inventions of the enemies of Christianity, are the occasions of real prejudices to the World, Jer. 18. 18. Come let us devise devices against Jeremiah, and let us smite him with the Tongue. Sometimes the innocent and serious Professors of godliness are censured and condemned for hypocritical professors sakes, who never heartily espoused Religion. And lastly, the ways of holiness suffer for the slips and infirmities of weak Christians; who commonly give too many occasions to disgust the World against the ways of God.
Thus Iustin Martyr complains, that Christians were every where condemned 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 by common same; and upon this account Christ pronounces a wo upon the World because of offences, Matth. 18. 7. Alas! it will be the ruine of Thousands; some have suckt in such prejudicate Opinions and vile Notions of Religio•, and its Professors, as makes them irreconcilable enemies to it. Satan hath drest 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, Psal. 69. 10