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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.
I. Inference.
Behold here the dismal state of nature, the woeful condition of all unregenerate Souls; Christ the Redeemer shut out, Sin and Satan shut in. This is the horrid state of nature shut up in unbelief, Rom. 4. 32. Ah, Lord, what a condition is this! We should certainly account it an unspeakable misery to be shut into a House haunted by the Devil, where we should be continually scared and frighted with dreadful noises and apparitions; but alas, what is an apparition of the Devil without us, to the inhabitation of the Devil within us? Nay what is the possession of a Body, to Satan's possession of the Soul? Yet this is the very case of the unregenerate, Luke 11. 21. The strong Man armed keepeth the Palace, till Christ dispossess him by Sovereign victorious Grace. Poor wretch, canst thou start at a supposed vision of a Spirit, and not tremble to think that thy Soul is the habitation of Devils? There is a twofold misery lying upon all Christless unregenerated persons; Satan is 1. Their Ruler in this World. 2. Their Tormentor in that to come.
Behold here the dismal state of nature, the woful condition of all unregenerate Souls; Christ the Redeemer shut out, Sin and Satan shut in. This is the horrid state of nature shut up in unbelief, Rom. 4. 32. Ah, Lord, what a condition is this! We should certainly account it an unspeakable misery to be shut into a House haunted by the Devil, where we should be continually scared and frighted with dreadful noises and apparitions; but alas, what is an apparition of the Devil without us, to the inhabitation of the Devil within us? Nay what is the possession of a Body, to Satans possession of the Soul? Yet this is the very case of the unregenerate, Luke 11. 21. The strong Man armed keepeth the Palace, till Christ dispossess him by Sovereign victorious Grace. Poor wretch, canst thou start at a supposed vision of a Spirit, and not tremble to think that thy Soul is the habitation of Devils? There is a twofold misery lying upon all Christless unregenerated persons; Satan is 1. Their Ruler in this World. 2. Their Tormenter in that to come.