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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.
First, Consider him before his Incarnation,1 and you will find too things in that state which plainly speak his desires after union with us.
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1. In the Covenant of Redemption he made with God concerning us before this World had a being; for such Covenants and Promises did really pass betwixt him and the Father before all time, or else I know not how to understand that Scripture, Tit. 1. 2. In hope of eternal Life, which God that cannot lye, promised before the World began. To whom could that Promise be made, but unto Christ, which bears date before the Creation? what else can this mean but the Covenant of Redemption, made betwixt the Father and the Son; the terms whereof are set down, in Isa. 53. 10, 11. where you find what Christ was to do, Viz. To put ⟨image 111⟩his Soul an offering for sin? And what should be his reward for pouring out his Soul unto Death, viz. To see his Seed, to see the travail of his Soul, even a Church purchased with his own Blood? Whether this be not a great demonstration of the propension and inclination of Christs Heart and Desire towards union and communion with poor sinners, let all Men judge. O what a value did Christ set upon our Souls, that upon such costly terms he would consent to redeem them? Unto this agreement God the Father held him, Rom. 8. 32. God spared not his own Son. And this very covenant Christ pleaded with the Father, John 17. 6. I have manifested thy Name to the Men which thou gavest me out of the World; thine they were, and thou gavest them me. This plainly shows the vehement desire of Christs Heart to be in union with Men; according to that,