A39669:1013
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 2.
If there be such a burden in sin, Then certainly sinners will pay 1dear for all the pleasure they find in sin in the days of their vanity. What one saith of crafty counl•s, we may say of 2all sins; though they seem pleasant in their first appearance, they will be found sad in the event: they are honey in the mouth, but the gall of Asps in the belly: they tickle the fancy, but rend the conscience. O sinner, thy mirth will certainly be turned into mourning, as sure as thou livest, that vain and frothy breast of thine shall be wounded: thou shalt feel the s•ing and pain, as well as relish the sweet and pleasure of sin. O that thou wouldst but give thy self the leisure seriously to ponder those Scriptures in the Margin: 3me thinks they should have the same effect that the hand-writing upon the plaster of the wall had upon that Jovial King in the height of a frolic, Dan. 5. 5. Reason thus with thine own heart, and thou wilt find the conclusion unavoidable: Either I shall repent for sin, or I shall not: if I shall not, then must I howl under the wrath of God for sin in the lowest Hell for evermore. If I shall, then by what I have now read of the throbs and wounds of conscience, I see what this heart of mine, this vain heart of mine must feel in this world. O how much wiser was the choice that Moses made,