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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.
Bethink your selves of the great and manifold provocations you have given the▪ 1Lord to put an end to all further Patience towards you; not only in the days of your vanity and unregeneracy, but even since your reconciliation to him. Do you not believe thousands of sinners are now in the depths of Hell, who never provoked the Lord at an higher rate than you have done? Were you not herded once among the vilest of sinners, 1 Cor. 6. 11. And such were some of you; as vile as the vilest among them; yet you are washed in the Blood of Christ, and your companions roaring in the lowest Hell; or if your lives were more clean, sure your Hearts and Natures were as filthy as theirs. And certainly your sins since the time of Reconciliation have had special aggravations in them, enough to put an end to all further mercies towards you. Light and Love have aggravated these sins, and yet the Lord will not cast you off.
Bethink your selves of the great and manifold provocations you have given the▪ 1Lord to put an end to all further Patience towards you; not only in the days of your vanity and unregeneracy, but enen since your reconciliation to him. Do you not believe thousands of sinners are now in the depths of Hell, who never provoked the Lord at an higher rate than you have done? Were you not herded once among the vilest of sinners, 1 Cor. 6. 11. And such were some of you; as vile as the vilest among them; yet you are washed in the Blood of Christ, and your companions roaring in the lowest Hell; or if your lives were more clean, sure your Hearts and Natures were as filthy as theirs. And certainly your sins since the time of Reconciliation have had special aggravations in them, enough to put an end to all further mercies towards you. Light and Love have aggravated these sins, and yet the Lord will not cast you off.
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