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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
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Caution 2.
We may not think that all believers do immediately enter into 1the full actual sense of rest and comfort; but they presently enter into the state of rest. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God, Rom. 5. 1. (i. e.) we enter into the state of peace immediately. Peace is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart, Psal. 97. 11. And he is a rich man that hath a thousand acres of corn in the ground, as well as he that hath so much in his barn, or the money in his purse. They have rest and peace in the seed of it, when they have it not in the fruit: they have rest in the promise, when they have it not in possession: and he is a rich man that hath good Bonds and Bills for a great sum of money, if he have not twelve pence in his pocket. All believers have the promise, have rest and peace granted them under Gods own hand in many promises; which faith brings them under: and we know that the truth and faithfulness of God stands engaged to make good every line and word of the promise to them. So that though they have not a full and clear actual sense and feeling of rest, they are nevertheless by faith come into the state of rest.
We may not think that all believers do immediately enter into 1the full actual sense of rest and comfort; but they presently enter into the state of rest. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God,