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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
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Thirdly, The third thing that makes this mercy delicious, and ravishingly sweet to the Soul; are the properties of it, which are four. (1.) God writes upon thy pardon frank; 'tis a free mercy, which cost thee nothing, Rom. 3. 24. Being justified freely by his grace. Thou hast bought me no sweet Cane with money, yet I, even I am be that blotteth out thy transgression, for my own names sake. (2.) God writes upon thy pardon full, as well as free, the pardon extends to all the sins that ever thou committedst, Acts 13. 43. By him all that believe, are justified from all things. The sins of thy nature, and practice; the sins of thy youth, and age; great sins, and lesser sins, are all comprehended within thy pardon. Thou art acquitted not from one, but from all! Certainly, the joy of Heaven must come down in the mercy of remission. O what a feast of fat things with marrow, is this single mercy; a pardon free without price, full without exception! And then (3.) its final, without revocation; the pardoned Soul never more comes into condemnation: Thine iniquities are removed from thee as far as the East is from the West; as those two opposite points of Heaven can never meet, so the pardoned Soul and its pardoned Sins can never more meet unto condemnation, Psal. 103. 12. (4.) God writes upon the pardon another word, as sweet as any of the rest, and that is sure. 'Tis a standing mercy ⟨p. 360⟩never to be recalled, vacated or annulled, Rom. 8. 33, 34, 35. The challenge is sent to Hell and Earth, Men and Devils; Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? 'Tis God that justifies, who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, &c. Who can arrest when the Creditor dischargeth? Who can sue the bond, when the debt is paid? 'Tis Christ that died. The Table is spread, and the first mercy served in, is the pardon of sin. Eat, O friends, drink, yea, drink abundantly O beloved. Now the labouring Conscience that rolled and tossed upon the waves of a thousand fears, may drop Anchor and ride quiet in the pacific Sea of a pardoned State. What joy must stream through the Conscience, when the sweetness of that Scripture,