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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.
(2ly,) This also is the declared end and scope of the Gospel promises and threatenings, whereby the Souls of sinners are assaulted on both sides: As for Promises, how are all the sacred pages of the Bible adorned with them, as the Firmament with radiant Stars! Amongst which that in the Text seems to excel in glory, If any Man open to me, I will come in to him. Like unto which, is that John 6. 35, 37. I am the bread of life, he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me ⟨p. 333⟩shall never thirst; him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. Such rich and excellent encouragements to faith had never been put into the promises, but for faiths sake; and then for Gospel threatenings, though they have a dreadful sound, yet they have a gracious design; what a terrible thunder-clap is that, John 3. 36. He that believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him? To which another Threatening echoes with a like terrible voice, Mark 16. 16. He that believeth not shall be damned. There be dreadful things, you see, threatened in the Gospel against unbelievers; but what is the intention of those threatenings, but to scare Men out of their unbelief, and carnal security unto Christ? And thus both the promises and the threatenings, though of far different natures, conspire and meet in the self same design, even to open the Heart to Christ by faith.
(2ly,) This also is the declared end and scope of the Gospel promises and threatnings, whereby the Souls of sinners are assaulted on both sides: As for Promises, how are all the sacred pages of the Bible adorned with them, as the Firmament with radiant Stars! Amongst which that in the Text seems to excel in glory, If any Man open to me, I will come in to him. Like unto which, is that Iohn 6. 35, 37. I am the bread of life, he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me ⟨p. 333⟩shall never thirst; him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. Such rich and excellent encouragements to faith had never been put into the promises, but for faiths sake; and then for Gospel threatnings, though they have a dreadful sound, yet they have a gracious design; what a terrible thunder-clap is that,