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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. Evidence.
And the first Evidence of the riches of his Patience shall be taken from the multitude of sins that Men and Women are guilty of before him, the least of which is a burden too heavy for any creature to bear; the Psalmist faith, Psal. 40. 12. Innumerable evils have compassed me about. It was true, as applied to the person of David; and though it be there applied to the person of Christ, yet not one of them were his own sins, but ours; called his, by Gods reckoning or imputing them to him. Men can number vast Sums, Millions of Millions, but no Man can number his own sins, they pass all account. There is not a member of the Body though never so small but hath been the instrument of innumerable evils. For instance, the Tongue, the Apostle tells us, is a World of iniquity, James 3. 6. and if there be a World of sin in one member, what then are the sins of all? How many idle, frothy, vain words hath thy Tongue uttered? And yet for them Christ saith, Men shall give an account in the day of Judgment, Matth. 12. 36. And what have the sins of thy thoughts been, The thought of foolishness is sin, saith Solomon, Prov. 24. 9. O who can understand his errors? Yet the Patience of God hath ⟨p. 90⟩not cracked and broken under such innumerable evils. O glorious Patience! Well may it be ushered in in the Text with a term of admiration, Behold, I stand.