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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. Exhortation.
Secondly, Admire Christ's Patience and forbearance of you until now, that he hath not cut you off in your sin, but lengthened out his Patience unto this day, and brought about your Salvation by his long-suffering towards you. Here now I must change my voice and turn it unto those whose Hearts the Lord hath opened: Stand amazed at the riches of his Grace towards you and see that you account this long-suffering of God to be your Salvation; for in plain Truth it is so: your Salvation was bound up in Christ's ⟨p. 119⟩forbearance; if Christ had not born as he did, you had not been where you are. I could heartily wish that all the time you can redeem from the necessary employments you have in the World, may now be spent in an humble, thankful admiration of this admirable Grace and Patience of Christ, and answerable duties to the intentions and ends thereof. To this end I shall subjoin divers weighty Considerations, which, methinks, should melt every Heart wherein the lest drachm of saving Grace is found.
Secondly, Admire Christ's Patience and forbearance of you until now, that he hath not cut you off in your sin, but lengthned out his Patience unto this day, and brought about your Salvation by his long-suffering towards you. Here now I must change my voice and turn it unto those whose Hearts the Lord hath opened: Stand amazed at the riches of his Grace towards you and see that you account this long-suffering of God to be your Salvation; for in plain Truth it is so: your Salvation was bound up in Christ's ⟨p. 119⟩forbearance; if Christ had not born as he did, you had not been where you are. I could heartily wish that all the time you can redeem from the necessary employments you have in the World, may now be spent in an humble, thankful admiration of this admirable Grace and Patience of Christ, and answerable duties to the intentions and ends thereof. To this end I shall subjoyn divers weighty Considerations, which, methinks, should melt every Heart wherein the lest drachm of saving Grace is found.