Englands duty under the present gospel liberty from Revel. III, vers. 20

abide where thou art saith Satan, remain with me and thou shalt escape all the Persecutions, losses and troubles of the World, which Conscience entangles other Men in; thou shalt draw thy life through peace and pleasure to thy dying day. O saith the flesh this is a good motion, what can be better for me? But then saith Christ, dost thou not consider that all these enjoyments will quickly be at an end, and what shall become of thee then? Behold I offer thee the free, full, and final pardon of thy sins; Peace and reconciliation with God, treasures in Heaven, all these shall be thine, with Troubles, Reproaches and Persecutions in this World. The Understanding and Conscience of a sinner being convinced of the vanity of earthly things, and the indispensable necessity of pardon and peace with God: I say, when a convinced Judgment hath duly balanced these things, and laid them before the Will, and the Spirit of God ⟨p. 140⟩put forth his Power in the renovation of it; it moves towards Christ freely, and yet cannot according to its natural order act otherwise than it doth. And doubtless this is the true meaning of that expression, so often mistaken and abused, in Luke 14. 23. Compel them to come in. What! by forcing Men against the light of their Consciences? No, no, to the shame of many Protestants let us hear the Gloss of Stella a Popish Commentator upon the place. Christ (saith he) compels Men to come in by showing to their Will such an excelling good, as it cannot but embrace; for volunt as nature aliter fertur in bonum. The Will is naturally carried to the choice of the best good. And thus the Spirit works upon the Soul harmoniously and agreeably to its own Nature. That's the Third thing implied in Christ's knocking.

abide where thou art saith Satan, remain with me and thou shalt escape all the Persecutions, losses and troubles of the World, which Conscience entangles other Men in; thou shalt draw thy life through peace and pleasure to thy dying day. O saith the flesh this is a good motion, what can be better for me? But then saith Christ, dost thou not consider that all these enjoyments will quickly be at an end, and what shall become of thee then? Behold I offer thee the free, full, and final pardon of thy sins; Peace and reconciliation with God, treasures in Heaven, all these shall be thine, with Troubles, Reproaches and Persecutions in this World. The Understanding and Conscience of a sinner being convinced of the vanity of earthly things, and the indispensable necessity of pardon and peace with God: I say, when a convinced Judgment hath duly ballanced these things, and laid them before the Will, and the Spirit of God