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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.
II. To show you positively what Communion with God is. Here we must consider two things. 1. What things it presupposes in us. 2. Wherein the nature of it consists.
II. To shew you positively what Communion with God is. Here we must consider two things. 1. What things it presupposes in us. 2. Wherein the nature of it consists.
First, There are divers things pre-required and presupposed unto all actual Communion with God in Duties; and where these things are wanting men can have no communion with God. You may have Communion with his People, and Communion with his Ordinances, but not Communion with God and Christ in them. And these pre-requisites are three,
I. Union with Christ is fundamentally necessary to all Communion with him. All Communion is founded in Union; and where there is no Union there can be no Communion. You know (saith an excellent Person) the member receives nothing from the head, 1unless it be united to it; nor the branch from the root. All is yours, and ye are Christs, 1 Cor. 3. 23. Here's a vast possession, but all founded upon Union; as all Communion is founded upon Union, so all Union terminates in Communion; and the closer the Union, the fuller is the Communion.
I. Vnion with Christ is fundamentally necessary to all Communion with him. All Communion is founded in Union; and where there is no Union there can be no Communion. You know (saith an excellent Person) the member receives nothing from the head, 1