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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.
First, The Nature of the work of Faith which is wholly supernatural; it is no less than the gaining over the hearty and full consent of the Will to take Jesus Christ with his yoke of Obedience, Matth. 11. 29. and with his Cross of Sufferings, Matth. 16. 24. And how far these will carry a man into outward dangers, losses, torments, and sufferings, who can tell? and all this upon the account of an unseen happiness and glory; dearest Lusts and Corruptions must be mortified, sweetest Pleasures and Profits in the World abandoned and forsaken, all Reproaches, Losses, Pains and Penalties the Devil and the World can lay upon us for Christs sake, must be embraced and welcomed; and can it be supposed that any power beneath the Almighty Power of the Lord, any voice except the efficacious voice of Christ, can ⟨p. 327⟩prevail with the Will to give its firm explicit consent to such difficult and self-denying terms as these?
First, The Nature of the work of Faith which is wholly supernatural; it is no less than the gaining over the hearty and full consent of the Will to take Jesus Christ with his yoke of Obedience, Matth. 11. 29. and with his Cross of Sufferings, Matth. 16. 24. And how far these will carry a man into outward dangers, losses, torments, and sufferings, who can tell? and all this upon the account of an unseen happiness and glory; dearest Lusts and Corruptions must be mortified, sweetest Pleasures and Profits in the World abandoned and forsaken, all Reproaches, Losses, Pains and Penalties the Devil and the World can lay upon us for Christs sake, must be embraced and wellcomed; and can it be supposed that any power beneath the Almighty Power of the Lord, any voice except the efficacious voice of Christ, can ⟨p. 327⟩prevail with the Will to give its firm explicite consent to such difficult and self-denying terms as these?