A39669:1171
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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Thirdly, The Inherence of sin in the soul; this is a sore disease, the very core and root of all our other complaints 1and ails. This made the holy Apostle bemoan himself, and wail so bitterly, Rom. 7. 17. because of sin that dwelt in him: and the same misery is bewailed by all sanctified persons all the world over.
Thirdly, The Inherence of sin in the soul; this is a sore disease, the very core and root of all our other complaints 1and ayles. This made the holy Apostle bemoan himself, and waile so bitterly, Rom. 7. 17. because of sin that dwelt in him: and the same misery is bewailed by all sanctified persons all the world over.
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'Tis a wonderful mercy to have the guilt and the dominion of sin cured; but we shall never be perfectly sound and well till the existence, or indwelling of sin in our natures be cured too. When once that is done, then we shall feel no more pain, nor sorrows for sin: and this our great Physician will at last perform for us, and upon us: but as the cure of guilt was by our Justification, the cure of the dominion of sin by our Sanctification; so the third and last which perfects the whole cure, will be by our Glorification; and till then it is not to be expected. For it's a clear case, that sin like Ivy in the old Walls, will never be gotten out, till the Wall be pulled down, and then it's pulled up by the roots. This ⟨p. 221⟩cure Christ will perform in a moment upon our dissolution. For 'tis plain,