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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.
II. Inference.
What a glorious and admirable effect of Sovereign omnipotent grace is the effectual conversion of a sinner unto God!
If every Heart by nature be secured for Satan under so many Locks and Bars, then the opening of any Heart to Christ is deservedly marvellous in our Eyes: You all acknowledge that the opening of the Graves at the Resurrection will be a glorious display of Almighty power, and so it will; it will be a wonderful thing to behold the Graves opened and the dead raised at the voice of the Arch-angel and the trump of God; but yet give me leave to say, That the opening of thy Heart, poor sinner, to receive Christ, is a more glorious work than that of raising the dead: It is therefore deservedly put into the first rank of the great mysteries of godliness, that Christ is believed on in the World, 1 Tim. 3. 16. He that well views and considers Christ, may justly wonder that all the Hearts in the enlightened World do not stand ⟨p. 61⟩wide open to embrace him; and he that shall consider the frame and temper of the natural Heart, and how strongly Satan hath entrenched and fortified himself in it, may justly wonder to hear of a work of Conversion in an age. Oh Brethren consider the marvels of Conversion, the wonderful works of God upon the Soul that opens unto Christ by Faith.