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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 7 › Application 2: II. Use for Exhortation.Sermon 7 › Application 2: II. Vse for Exhortation.
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(1.) There be sins of infirmity, committed out of weakness, and there are crying sins in the Ears of the Lord; of the former sort, sins of infirmity, you read Gal. 6. 1. where it is called an overtaking in a fault; here's no premeditation, nor deliberate consent, but a surprise; these go not to the account of gross and heinous enormities, called in Scripture crying sins, such as are the sin of oppression, Hab. 2. 10, 11. The stones shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. The meaning is, that the injustice ⟨p. 266⟩and oppression which Men have used in raising their own Houses, shall cry in the Ears of the Lord for vengeance. The Stone in the Wall shall say, I was digged out of the Quarry, hewen, and laid here, by the unrewarded labours of the poor Mason; and the Timber out of the Beam shall say, I was hewn, squared and placed here, by the unrewarded Hands of the poor Carpenter. This is a crying sin; so also is the sin of Murder, when our Hands have been defiled with innocent Blood; this makes a dismal cry in Heaven, Gen. 4. 10. The voice of thy Brothers blood crieth unto me from the ground. A sin that makes an horrid outcry in both Worlds at once; in Heaven, and in the sinners Conscience. Such also is the sin of unnatural lusts; the sin of Sodom made a cry which came up to Heaven, Gen. 18. 20. Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grievous. Compare these sins with the sins of common infirmity, which come by way of involuntary surprise, and what vast odds will be found in the weight and aggravations of them?
(1.) There be sins of infirmity, committed out of weakness, and there are crying sins in the Ears of the Lord; of the former sort, sins of infirmity, you read Gal. 6. 1. where it is called an overtaking in a fault; here's no premeditation, nor deliberate consent, but a surprize; these go not to the account of gross and heynous enormities, called in Scripture crying sins, such as are the sin of oppression,