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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.
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.
By these things multitudes are kept off from attendance upon the means of Grace, and multitudes more have their Hearts shut up from receiving any saving benefit under them.
These are the common Bars and Locks by ⟨p. 57⟩which the strong Man armed secures his possession in the Souls of sinners; and these Bars are too strong for any power beneath the Almighty power and Arm of God to remove or break; tis said, Acts 14. 27. That the Lord opened a door of Faith to the Gentiles: The Arm of the Lord must be revealed or none will open to Christ by Faith, Isa. 53. 1.
1. The iron Bar of the Law, that thundering terrible Law, cannot force open the Heart of an unbeliever; all the dreadful curses flying out of its fiery mouth, make no more impression than a Tennis ball against a wall of Marble, Deut. 29. 19. You read of them that hear the words of this Curse, yet bless themselves in their Heart, saying, they shall have peace though they walk in the imagination of their Hearts, to add Drunkenness to Thirst.