A39669:1185
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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Fifthly, None so ready to relieve a sick soul as Christ: he is within the call of a distressed soul at all times. Art thou sick for sin, weary of sin, and made truly willing to part with sin? Lift up but thy sincere cry to the Lord Jesus for help, and he will quickly be with thee: when the Prodigal, the emblem of a convinced humbled sinner, said in himself, I will return to my Father, the Father ran to meet him, Luke 15. 20. he can be with thee in a moment.
Fifthly, None so ready to relieve a sick soul as Christ: he is within the call of a distressed soul at all times. Art thou sick for sin, weary of sin, and made truly willing to part with sin? Lift up but thy sincere cry to the Lord Jesus for help, and he will quickly be with thee: when the Prodigal, the embleme of a convinced humbled sinner, said in himself, I will return to my Father, the Father ran to meet him, Luke 15. 20. he can be with thee in a moment.
Sixthly, none so willing to receive and undertake all distressed and afflicted souls as Jesus Christ is: he refuses none that come to him, Joh. 6. 37. He that cometh unto me, I will in no ways cast out: whatever their sins have been, or their sorrows are; however they have wounded their own souls with the deepest gashes of guilt; how desperate and helpless soever their case appears in their own or others Eyes: he never puts them off, or discourages them, if they be but willing to come, Isai. 1. 18, 19.
Sixthly, none so willing to receive and undertake all distressed and afflicted souls as Jesus Christ is: he refuses none that come to him, Joh. 6. 37. He that cometh unto me, I will in no wayes cast out: whatever their sins have been, or their sorrows are; however they have wounded their own souls with the deepest gashes of guilt; how desperate and helpless soever their case appears in their own or others Eyes: he never puts them off, or discourages them, if they be but willing to come,