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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 4.
How unexpressibly dreadful is the state of the damned, who must bear the burden of all their sins upon themselves without relief or 1hope of deliverance! Mark 9. 44. where their worm dyeth not, and the fire is not quenched.
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O if sin upon the soul that's coming to Christ for deliverance be so burdensome, what is it upon the soul that is shut out from Christ, and all hopes of deliverance for ever! For do but ponder these differences betwixt these two burdens.
First, No soul is so capacious now, to take in the fullness of the evil and misery of sin, as they are, who are gone down to the place of torments. Even as the joys of Gods face ⟨p. 188⟩