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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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(2ly,) You find in Scripture a great difference put betwixt sins committed against the clear shining light of Knowledge in the sinners Conscience, and sins of Ignorance which are committed for want of Knowledge: Christ himself puts a great difference betwixt them, Luke 12. 47, 48. and so doth the Apostle, James 4. 17. To him that knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin. Sin with a witness.
(2ly,) You find in Scripture a great difference put betwixt sins committed against the clear shining light of Knowledge in the sinners Conscience, and sins of Ignorance which are committed for want of Knowledge: Christ himself puts a great difference betwixt them, Luke 12. 47, 48. and so doth the Apostle, Iames 4. 17. To him that knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin. Sin with a witness.
(3ly,) There are single acts of sin, and continued or repeated acts of sin. Sins committed after Conviction, Promises, and Resolutions. Now ⟨p. 267⟩there is not so much of guilt in a single act of sin, as there is in a repeated and continued course of sin, called Deut. 29. 19. Adding of drunkenness to thirst, and Isa. 30. 1. Adding sin to sin. For as it is in numbering, so it is in sinning; if the first figure be one, the second is ten, the third an hundred, the fourth a thousand; and every addition makes a greater multiplication. O what a dreadful reckoning will here be for the Consciences of poor sinners!