A39669:1085
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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But if I am not guilty of that sin, I am certainly guilty of many 1great and heinous abominations of another kind, too great for me to expect mercy for, and therefore I dare not go to Christ.
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The greater your sins have been, the more need you have to go to Jesus Christ. Let not a Motive to Christ, be made 1an Obstacle in your way to him. Great sinners are expressly called Isa. 1. 18. great sinners have come to Christ and found mercy, 1 Cor. 6. 7. And to conclude, it's an high reproach and dishonour to the blood of Christ, and mercy of God which flows so freely through him, to object the greatness of sin to either of them. Certainly you have not sinned beyond the extent of mercy, or beyond the efficacy of the blood of ⟨p. 201⟩of Christ: but pardon and peace may be had, if you will thus come to Christ for it.
The greater your sins have been, the more need you have to go to Jesus Christ. Let not a Motive to Christ, be made 1an Obstacle in your way to him. Great sinners are expresly called Isa. 1. 18. great sinners have come to Christ and found mercy, 1 Cor. 6. 7. And to conclude, it's an high reproach and dishonour to the blood of Christ, and mercy of God which flowes so freely through him, to object the greatness of sin to either of them. Certainly you have not sinned beyond the extent of mercy, or beyond the efficacy of the blood of