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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
Sermon 9 › Part 1 › Section 2 › Subsection 4: Fourth Counsel.
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Observe whether your troubles for sin produce such fruits and effects in your souls, as theirs do which end at last in Christ and 1everlasting peace.
- 14. Counsel.
First, One that is truly burdened with sin, will not allow himself to live in the secret practice of sin: either your trouble will put an end to your course of sinning, or your sinning will put an end to your troubles. Consult 2 Cor. 7. 11.
Secondly, True sorrow for sin will give you very low and vile thoughts of your selves: as you were covered with pride before, so you will be covered with shame after God hath convinced and humbled you, Rom. 6. 21.
Thirdly, A soul really burdened with sin, will never stand in his own justification before God, nor extenuate and mince it in his confessions to him,