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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 6: Sixth Counsel.
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Sixth Counsel.
Hasten to Christ in the way of faith, and you shall find rest; and till then all the world cannot give you true rest. The sooner 1you transact with Christ in the way of faith, the sooner you shall be at peace, and enter into his rest: for those that believe, do now enter into rest. You may tug and strive, look this way and that, but all in vain; Christ and peace come together. No sooner do you come to him, and roll your burden on him, receive him as he offers himself, but the soul feels it self eased on a sudden, being justified by faith we have peace with God, Rom. 5. 1. And thus in finishing the first, we are brought home to the second Observation.
Hasten to Christ in the way of faith, and you shall find rest; and till then all the world cannot give you true rest. The sooner 1you transact with Christ in the way of faith, the sooner you shall be at peace, and enter into his rest: for those that believe, do now enter into rest. You may tugg and strive, look this way and that, but all in vain; Christ and peace come together. No sooner do you come to him, and roll your burden on him, receive him as he offers himself, but the soul feels it self eased on a suddain, being justified by faith we have peace with God, Rom. 5. 1. And thus in finishing the first, we are brought home to the second Observation.