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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
Sermon 5 › Doctrine 5 › Application 1 › Inference 1: I. Inference.
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2ly. Freedom from grosser sins and pollutions of the World, stills and quiets the Consciences of thousands; they have had a civil, sober and ⟨p. 160⟩fair Education, and though there be no Grace, and Regeneration; yet what Saints do they seem to themselves being adorned with sobriety and civility! This stilled the Conscience of the Pharisee, Luke 18. 11. God I thank thee that I am not as other Men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. Thus like delicate Agag they spruce up themselves with moral homiletical virtues, wherein many thousand Heathens were more gay than themselves; but Justice will hew them to pieces as Agag was, for all their moral ornaments and endowments.
2ly. Freedom from grosser sins and pollutions of the World, stills and quiets the Consciences of thousands; they have had a civil, sober and ⟨p. 160⟩fair Education, and though there be no Grace, and Regeneration; yet what Saints do they seem to themselves being adorned with sobriety and civility! This stilled the Conscience of the Pharisee, Luke 18. 11. God I thank thee that I am not as other Men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. Thus like delicate Agag they spruce up themselves with moral homilitical vertues, wherein many thousand Heathens were more gay than themselves; but Justice will hew them to pieces as Agag was, for all their moral ornaments and endowments.
3ly, The strict performance of the external duties of Religion quiets the Consciences of many; they question not but those that do so well shall fare well, and that God will never damn Men and Women that keep their Church and say their Prayers as they do. Thus the carnal Jews deluded themselves, crying, The Temple of the Lord, The Temple of the Lord; as malefactors in some of our Neighbouring Kingdoms, fly to the Church from the Hand of Justice, so do these; but God will pluck them from the Horns of the Altar and convince them that the empty name of Religion is no security from damnation.