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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.
1. The Death of Christ obtains complete righteousness for guilty sinners; and if any thing in the World will draw the Heart of a sinner, this will; the anxious search, and enquiry of a convinced sinner, is after a perfect righteousness to justify him before God. O that's it the sinner wants! Conscience saith, thou hast broken all the Laws of God, and art therefore a Law condemned wretch; the sentence of the Law casts thee for Hell; Now what would a poor sinner give for a release from this sentence of the Law? O ten thousand Worlds for a Pardon! Why here it is, saith Christ, Come unto me and thou shalt receive a free, full, and final pardon; my Blood cleanseth from all sin; my righteousness answers all the demands of the Law. I have ⟨p. 194⟩taken away the Hand-writing that was against thee, and nailed it to my Cross, Col. 2. 14. Come unto me and take up thy Bonds, thy cancelled Bonds; come unto me and that dreadful attribute of Divine Justice shall never scare or fright thy Conscience any more; nay, thou shalt build thy hope upon it; you read, Rom. 3. 25. That God hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation through Faith in his Blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God: To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness; that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. Here you see the justification and pardon of a sinner built upon that very Attribute which was so frightful and dreadful to him before. Well then, poor sinner, is there guilt upon thy Conscience? And doth thy Soul shake and quiver to think how it shall stand before the Just and Terrible God in the great Day? Hearken to the voice of Christ crucified, who calls thee to him to receive thy discharge, which if thou refuse, the Law still stands in its full force and virtue against thy Soul. This is one cord Christ casts from the Cross, over the Souls of guilty sinners to draw them to him.
1. The Death of Christ obtains compleat righteousness for guilty sinners; and if any thing in the World will draw the Heart of a sinner, this will; the anxious search, and enquiry of a convinced sinner, is after a perfect righteousness to justifie him before God. O that's it the sinner wants! Conscience saith, thou hast broken all the Laws of God, and art therefore a Law condemned wretch; the sentence of the Law casts thee for Hell; Now what would a poor sinner give for a release from this sentence of the Law? O ten thousand Worlds for a Pardon! Why here it is, saith Christ, Come unto me and thou shalt receive a free, full, and final pardon; my Blood cleanseth from all sin; my righteousness answers all the demands of the Law. I have