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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 6 › Application 2: II. Use.Sermon 6 › Application 2: II. Vse.
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I. The things that you must part with, viz. your Lusts, and all the vicious pleasures you have had in them; how much profit or pleasure soever they have brought you in, away they must go; they must be devoted to destruction, and mortification, or you can have no interest in Christ: You must shake Hands for ever with all your sinful courses and companions, Rom. 6. 16. His Servants you are to whom you obey. Be they as pleasant and profitable, as your right Hand or Eye, they must be plucked out, and cut off, Matth. 5. 29, 30. Doth this sound harsh and unpleasant to your Ears? Doth this cause the demur? O ⟨p. 215⟩consider, what it is to part with sin; it is but to part with the Disease of your Souls, and the instruments of your everlasting ruin; which of you would not be glad to part with a Fever, the Stone, or Dropsy? What is Passion, but the Fever of the Soul? What is a hard Heart, but a Stone? What is Covetousness, and Earthlymindedness, but the insatiable Dropsy of the Soul? Now if Men would be glad to be rid of such dreadful Diseases in their Bodies, and be restored to Soundness, Ease and Health; how much more should you be glad to be rid of your Corruptions, and have the rectitude, ease and pleasure of your Soul restored again? Yea, instead of those impure, vicious, brutish pleasures you have taken in sin; you shall enjoy the pure, divine, suitable, and everlasting pleasures of holiness. Consider now, and accordingly make your choice, whether you will take the pleasures of sin, which are but for a season, in exchange for the everlasting joys which are at Gods right Hand for ever.
I. The things that you must part with, viz. your Lusts, and all the vicions pleasures you have had in them; how much profit or pleasure soever they have brought you in, away they must go; they must be devoted to destruction, and mortification, or you can have no interest in Christ: You must shake Hands for ever with all your sinful courses and companions, Rom. 6. 16. His Servants you are to whom you obey. Be they as pleasant and profitable, as your right Hand or Eye, they must be pluckt out, and cut off,