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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.
XI. DOCT.
That there is a mutual, sweet and intimate communion betwixt Jesus Christ, and believers in this World.
That there is a mutual, sweet and intimate communion betwixt Iesus Christ, and believers in this World.
Communion with Christ is frequent in the lips of many men, but an hidden mystery to the Souls of most men. This Atheistical age scoffs, and ⟨p. 396⟩ridicules it, as Enthusiasm, and Fanaticism; but the Saints find that reality, and incomparable sweetness in it, that they would not part with it for Ten thousand Worlds. When the Roman Soldiers entered the Temple at Jerusalem, and found no Image there, as they used to have in their own Idolatrous Temples; they gave out in a Jeer, that the Jews worshipped the Clouds. Thus profane Atheists scoff at the most solemn, awful and sweetest part of internal Religion, as a mere fancy; but the thing is real, sure, and sensible; if there be truth in any thing in the World, there is truth in this, That there are real intercourses betwixt the visible and invisible World; betwixt Christ, and the Souls of believers, which we here call communion, 1 John 1. 3. Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Christ Jesus. 'Tis really and truly so, we impose not upon the World, we tell you no more than we have felt. The life of Enoch is called his walking with God,