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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
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.
Inference 3.
Is there such a burden in sin, Then the most tender compassion 1is due debt to souls afflicted and heavy laden with sin. Their condition cries for pity, whatever their tongues do: they ⟨p. 187⟩seem to call upon you, as Job upon his friends, Have pity, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me, Job 19. 21. and O let all that have felt the wounds and anguish of an afflicted conscience themselves, learn from their own experience tenderly to pity and help others, 2Gal. 6. 1. You that are spiritually minded restore (or set him in joint again) in the spirit of meekness, considering thy self.
Is there such a burden in sin, Then the most tender compassion 1is due debt to souls afflicted and heavy laden with sin. Their condition cryes for pity, whatever their tongues do: they ⟨p. 187⟩seem to call upon you, as Job upon his friends, Have pity, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me, Job 19. 21. and O let all that have felt the wounds and anguish of an afflicted conscience themselves, learn from their own experience tenderly to pity and help others, 2