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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
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II. There is a full and entire consent of the Will, called, a believing with all the Heart, Acts 8. 37. Now this integrity and fullness of the Wills choice, is that which closes the match betwixt Christ and the Soul, and frees a Man from the danger of hypocrisy. And there are three things which make the consent to, and choice of Christ, complete and full.
II. There is a full and entire consent of the Will, called, a believing with all the Heart, Acts 8. 37. Now this integrity and fulness of the Wills choice, is that which closes the match betwixt Christ and the Soul, and frees a Man from the danger of hypocrisie. And there are three things which make the consent to, and choice of Christ, compleat and full.
1. When we give up all we are and have, to him. 2. When we derive and draw all we want, from him. 3. When we are ready to deny any thing for his sake.
1. We do then heartily consent to be Christs, when we give up all we are and have, to him; so that after this choice of Christ we look upon our selves thenceforth as none of our own; but bought with a price, to glorify God in our Body and Soul, which are his, 1 Cor. 6. 19, 20. Soul ⟨p. 237⟩and Body is all that we are, and both these parts of our selves do now pass, by an act of our own consent, into the Redeemers right; we are not to have the dispose of them, that belongs to him that purchased them: You know in all purchases property is altered; you did live as your own, followed your own Wills, Lusts, Passions; were under the dominion and at the beck of every Lust; but now the case is altered,