A39669:1110
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.
Caution 1.
You are not to conceive, that all the souls fears, troubles and sorrows are presently over and at an end, as soon as it is come to 1Christ by faith. They will have many troubles in the world after that, it may be more than ever they had in their lives: 2Our flesh (saith Paul) had no rest, 2 Cor. 7. 5. They will be infested with many temptations after that, it may be the assaults of Satan may be more violent upon their souls than ever: horribilia de deo, terribilia de fide: Injections that make the very bones to quake, and the belly to tremble: they will not be freed from sin, that rest remains for the people of ⟨p. 207⟩God, nor from inward trouble and grief of soul about sin. These things are not to be expected presently.
- 1Caution 1.
- 2Luther upon his conversion was so buffeted by Satan, ut nec calor, nec sanguis, nec sensus, nec vox superesset.