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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, If personal unworthiness were sufficient to bar Christ out of thy Soul, it would equally bar him out of all the Souls in the World; for all are unworthy as well as thy self. Where-ever Christ finds sinfulness, he finds unworthiness; and to be sure he finds this where-ever he comes. Christ never expected to find worthiness in thee, but it highly pleases him to find thee under a becoming sense of thy personal unworthiness, Jer. 3. 13. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, &c. The returning prodigal acknowledged to his Father, I am not worthy to be called thy Son, Luke 15. 18, 19. But this did not bar his access to, or hinder his acceptance by his Father. All that come to God to be justified, must see and confess their own vileness, and come to him as one that justifieth the ungodly, Rom. 4. 5.
First, If personal unworthiness were sufficient to bar Christ out of thy Soul, it would equally bar him out of all the Souls in the World; for all are unworthy as well as thy self. Where-ever Christ finds sinfulness, he finds unworthiness; and to be sure he finds this where-ever he comes. Christ never expected to find worthiness in thee, but it highly pleases him to find thee under a becoming sense of thy personal unworthiness, Ier. 3. 13. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgrest against the Lord thy God, &c. The returning prodigal acknowledged to his Father, I am not worthy to be called thy Son, Luke 15. 18, 19. But this did not bar his access to, or hinder his acceptance by his Father. All that come to God to be justified, must see and confess their own vileness, and come to him as one that justifieth the ungodly, Rom. 4. 5.