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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.
Fourthly,1 The Lord draws forth and exercises his admirable Patience towards sinners for the continuation and propagation of the Church. The Church must be continued and propagated from Age to Age, and if God should be quick in cutting off sinners▪ as soon as ever they provoke him, whence should the elect of God rise in this ⟨p. 99⟩World? There are thousands of God's Elect in the Loins of God's Enemies. Many that will heartily embrace Christ must rise from such as reject him.
Fourthly,1 The Lord draws forth and exercises his admirable Patience towards sinners for the continuation and propagation of the Church. The Church must be continued and propagated from Age to Age, and if God should be quick in cutting off sinners▪ as soon as ever they provoke him, whence shoul the elect of God rise in this ⟨p. 99⟩World? There are thousands of God's Elect in the Loins of God's Enemies. Many that will heartily embrace Christ must rise from such as reject him.
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Now if God should cut off these in the beginning of their provocations, how should the Church be continued? Where had good Abijah and Hezekiah been, if wicked Jeroboam and Ahaz had been cut off in their first transgressions? The Lord suffers many a wicked Parent to stand for a time under his Patience, because Children are to spring from them who will obey and embrace brace that Christ whom their wicked Parents rejected: Yea, the Wicked do not only propagate the Church, but are useful to preserve and defend it; as the useless chaff is a defence to the Wheat,