A39669:1180
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.
Secondly, Next, I shall show you that Jesus Christ is the only Physician of souls: none like him for a sick sinner: and this will be evident in divers respects.
Secondly, Next, I shall shew you that Jesus Christ is the only Physician of souls: none like him for a sick sinner: and this will be evident in divers respects.
First, None so wise and judicious as Jesus Christ to understand, 1and comprehend the nature, depth, and danger of soul diseases. O how ignorant and unacquainted are men with the state and case of afflicted souls! but Christ hath the tongue of the Learned, that he should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary, Isai. 50. 4. He only understands the weight of sin, and depth of inward troubles for sin.
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Secondly, None so able to cure and heal the wounds of afflicted souls as Christ is: he only hath those medicines that can cure a sick soul. The blood of Christ, and nothing else in Heaven or Earth, is able to cure the mortal wounds which guilt inflicts upon a trembling Conscience: let men try all other receipts, and costly experience shall convince them of their insufficiency. Conscience may be benumbed by stupefactive medicines, prepared by the Devil for that end, but pacified it can never be, but by the blood of Christ, Heb. 16. 22.
Secondly, None so able to cure and heal the wounds of afflicted souls as Christ is: he only hath those medicines that can cure a sick soul. The blood of Christ, and nothing else in Heaven or Earth, is able to cure the mortal wounds which guilt inflicts upon a trembling Conscience: let men try all other receipts, and costly experience shall convince them of their insufficiency. Conscience may be benummed by stupefactive medicines, prepared by the Devil for that end, but pacified it can never be, but by the blood of Christ, Heb. 16. 22.