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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.
Burden not the Patience of Christ after your admission of him, and reconciliation to him; let it suffice that you tried his Patience long enough before, give him no new exercises now he is come to dwell in and with you for ever. There be two ways wherein God's own People do greatly provoke him after their Reconciliation. 1. By sluggishness to Duty. 2. By sinning against Light.
Burden not the Patience of Christ after your admission of him, and reconciliation to him; let it suffice that you tried his Patience long enough before, give him no new exercises now he is come to dwell in and with you for ever. There be two ways wherein God's own People do greatly provoke him after their Reconciliation. 1. By slugishness to Duty. 2. By sinning against Light.
1. By sluggishness and deadness of Spirit in the ways of Duty and Obedience; turning a deaf ear to the calls and motions of Christ's Spirit exciting them to the sweet and pleasant Duties of Religion. We have a sad instance of this in the Spouse, Cant. 5. 2, 3. It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me my Sister, my Love, my Dove, my Undefiled; for my Head is filled with dew, and my Locks with the drops of the night. One would think that Christ might have opened the Heart of his own Spouse with less solicitation, and importunate Arguments than he here useth; what Wife could shut the door upon her own dear Husband, and bar him out of his own ⟨p. 123⟩house? And yet see the lazy excuse she makes, vers. 3. I have put off my coat, how shall I put it on? I have washed my Feet, how shall I defile them?
1. By slugishness and deadness of Spirit in the ways of Duty and Obedience; turning a deaf ear to the calls and motions of Christ's Spirit exciting them to the sweet and pleasant Duties of Religion. We have a sad instance of this in the Spouse,