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The Method of Grace
The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mystery of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mysterie of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed by M. White for Francis Tyton, 1681
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Inference 1.1
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Is there such a load and burden in sin? What then was the 1burden that our Lord Jesus Christ felt and bare for us, upon whom the dead weight of all the sins of all Gods elect lay! Isa. 53. 6. He hath made the iniquities of us all to meet on him. Our burden is heavy, but nothing to Christ. O there's a vast difference betwixt that which Christ bare, and that which we bear. We feel but the single weight of our own sins. Christ felt the whole weight of all our sins. You do not feel the whole weight that is in any one sin: alas, it would sink you, if God should let it bear in all its aggravations and effects upon you, Psal. 130. 2, 3. If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity, O Lord who shall stand! You would quail and sink presently: you can no more stand under it, than under the weight of a mighty Mountain. But Christ bare all the burden upon himself: his understanding was deep and large: he knew the extent of ⟨p. 186⟩its evil, which we do not: we have many reliefs and helps under our burden, he had none: we have friends to counsel, comfort and pity us; all his friends and familiars forsook him and fled in the day of his trouble: we have comforts from heaven, he had frowns from heaven: My God, my God (saith he in that doleful day) why hast thou forsaken me? there's no compare betwixt our load and Christ's.