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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.
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, 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 Vnion; as all Communion is founded upon Vnion, so all Vnion terminates in Communion; and the closer the Vnion, the fuller is the Communion.
Before our Union with Christ, we are strangers unto God, Eph. 2. I3. We live without God in the World; 'tis in Christ that we are made nigh; 'tis in the beloved we are made accepted. Whilst we are in the state of alienation from Christ, we have no more to do with the communications of joy and peace, with the seals and earnests of the Spirit, than a Native Indian hath with the privileges of London. If any man open to me, saith Christ, I will come in to him and sup with him, and he with me.