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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. There is an External voice of Christ, which we may call his Ministerial voice in the Preaching of the Gospel; the Scriptures are his Word, and Ministers his Mouth, Jer. 15. 19. He that heareth them, heareth Christ.
1. There is an External voice of Christ, which we may call his Ministerial voice in the Preaching of the Gospel; the Scriptures are his Word, and Ministers his Mouth, Ier. 15. 19. He that heareth them, heareth Christ.
2ly, There is also an Internal energetical voice of Christ, consisting not in sound, but power: And betwixt these two, there are two remarkable differences. (1.) The External or Ministerial voice of Christ, is but the Organ or Instrument of conveying his Internal and Efficacious voice to the Soul; in the former he speaks to the Ear, and in, or by that •ound conveys his ⟨p. 280⟩Spiritual voice to the Heart. (2ly,) The External voice is evermore ineffectual and successless, when it is not animated by this Internal Spiritual voice; it was marvellous to see the walls of Jericho falling to the ground at the sound of Rams-horns; there was certainly more than the force of an external blast, to produce such an effect; but more marvellous it is, to see at the sound of the Gospel, not only the weapons of iniquity falling out of sinners Hands, but the very enmity it self out of their Hearts. Here you see is a voice in a voice, an Internal efficacy in the External sound; without which the Gospel makes no saving impression.
2ly, There is also an Internal energetical voice of Christ, consisting not in sound, but power: And betwixt these two, there are two remarkable differences. (1.) The External or Ministerial voice of Christ, is but the Organ or Instrument of conveying his Internal and Efficacious voice to the Soul; in the former he speaks to the Ear, and in, or by that ound conveys his