A39669:1135
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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Inference 4.
How unreasonable and wholly inexcusable in Believers is the sin of backsliding from Christ? Have you found rest in him, 1when you could not find it in any other? Did he receive and ease your souls when all other persons and things were Physicians of no value? and will you after this backslide from him again? O what madness is this! Will a man leave the Snow of Lebanon which cometh from the Rock of the Field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place, be forsaken? No man that is in his wits would leave the pure cold refreshing streams of a Crystal Fountain, to go to a filthy puddled Lake, or an empty Cistern, as the best enjoyments of this world are in comparison with Jesus Christ.
How unreasonable and wholly inexcusable in Believers is the sin of backsliding from Christ? Have you found rest in him, 1when you could not find it in any other? Did he receive and ease your souls when all other persons and things were Physicians of no value? and will you after this backslide from him again? O what madness is this! Will a man leave the Snow of Lebanon which cometh from the Rock of the Field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place, be forsaken? No man that is in his wits would leave the pure cold refreshing streams of a Crystal Fountain, to go to a filthy pudled Lake, or an empty Cistern, as the best enjoyments of this world are in comparison with Jesus Christ.
- 1Inference 4.