A39669:1106
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.
Doct. 3.1
- 1Doct. 3.
That there is rest in Christ for all that come unto him under the heavy burden of Sin.
REST, is a sweet word to a weary soul, all seek it, none but believers find it. We which have believed 1(saith the Apostle) do enter into rest, Heb. 4. 3. he doth not say they shall, but they do enter into rest; noting their spiritual rest to be already begun by faith on earth in the tranquillity of conscience, and shall be consummated in heaven in the full enjoyment of God. There is a sweet calm upon the troubled soul after believing, an ease or rest of the mind, which is an unspeakable mercy to a poor weary soul. Christ is to it, as the Ark was to the Dove when she wandered over the watery World, and found not a place ⟨p. 206⟩to rest the sole of her foot. Faith centres the unquiet spirit of man in Christ, brings it to repose it self and its burden on him. It is the souls dropping anchor in a storm, which stays and settles it.