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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.
Seeing the Case stands thus, that all Hearts by nature are barred and shut up against Christ; let every Soul do what it can, and strive to its uttermost to get the Heart and Will opened to Christ: Strive to enter in at the straight gate; Christ is at the Door, Oh strive with your selves, as well as with God, now to get it opened; now that Salvation is come so near to your Souls.
Seeing the Case stands thus, that all Hearts by nature are barr'd and shut up against Christ; let every Soul do what it can, and strive to its uttermost to get the Heart and Will opened to Christ: Strive to enter in at the straight gate; Christ is at the Door, Oh strive with your selves, as well as with God, now to get it opened; now that Salvation is come so near to your Souls.
Object. 1But have you not told us that no sinner can open his own Heart, nor bow his own Will to Christ?
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Answ. 1True he cannot convert himself, but yet he may do many things in order to it, and which have a remote tendency towards it, which he doth not do; and so he perisheth not, though he cannot, but because he will not.
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