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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
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1. There's a new Eye created in the mind, The Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true, 1 John 5. 20. Oh that Eye! That precious Eye of Faith which shows the Soul as it were a new World, a World of new and ravishing objects, Eph. 5. 8. All the Angels in Heaven, Ministers, and Libraries upon Earth, cannot create such an Eye, give such an Illumination; tis only he that commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, that thus shineth into our Hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4. 6.
1. There's a new Eye created in the mind, The Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true, 1 John 5. 20. Oh that Eye! That precious Eye of Faith which shews the Soul as it were a new World, a World of new and ravishing objects, Eph. 5. 8. All the Angels in Heaven, Ministers, and Libraries upon Earth, cannot create such an Eye, give such an Illumination; tis only he that commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, that thus shineth into our Hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4. 6.
2ly, And what a glorious supernatural Work is the conviction of the Conscience by the powerful stroke of the saving beams of light upon it? Now the Conscience, that lay in a dead sleep, begins to startle and look about it with fear and horror. Life and sense is got into it, and now it cries, ah, sick, sick, sick at the Heart for sin, sick for a Saviour.