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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
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VI. Exhortation.
Let us all be ashamed and humbled for the baseness of our Hearts and Natures, which made Christ wait at the door so long, before we opened to him. O what wretched Hearts have we! That were no more affected with the groans of Christ's Heart, than with the groans of a Beast, no nor so much neither, if that Beast were our own. Oh, the vileness of Nature to make the Prince of the King's of the Earth bringing Pardon and Salvation with him, to stand so long unanswered; let who will cry up the goodness of Nature, I am sure we have reason to look upon the vileness of it with amazement and horror. You could not have found in your Hearts to have made the poorest beggar wait so long at your door, as you have made Christ to wait upon you.
VII. Exhortation.
Seventhly, and Lastly, Let us all bless and admire the Lord Jesus for the continuation of his Patience, not to our selves only, but to that whole sinful Nation in which we live. We thought the Treaty of Peace had been ended with us; many good Men looking upon the iniquities and abominations of these times, considering the vanities and backsliding of Professors, the Heaven-daring provocations of this Atheistical age, concluded in their own Hearts, that God would make England another Shiloh. Many faithful Ministers of Christ said within themselves God hath no more Work for us to do,