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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
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.
Inference 1.
How inexpressible is the grace of God, in providing such a Physician 1as Christ, for the sick and dying souls of Sinners! O blessed be God, that there is Balm in Gilead, and a Physician there: that your case is not as desperate, forlorn and remediless as that of the Devils and damned is. There is but one case excepted from cure, and that such as is not incident to any sensible afflicted soul, Mat. 12. 31. and this only excepted, all manner of sins and diseases are capable of a cure. Though there be such a disease as is incurable, yet take this for thy comfort, never any soul was sick ( i. e.) sensibly burdened with it, and willing to come to Jesus Christ for healing: for under that sin, the will is so wounded that they have no desire to Christ. O inestimable mercy, that the sickest sinner is capable of a perfect cure! There be thousands, and ten thousands now in Heaven and earth, who said once, never was any case like theirs; so dangerous, so hopeless. The greatest of sinners have been perfectly recovered by Christ, 1 Tim. 1. 15. 1 Cor. 6. 11. O mercy never to be duly estimated!
How inexpressible is the grace of God, in providing such a Physician 1as Christ, for the sick and dying souls of Sinners! O blessed be God, that there is Balm in Gilead, and a Physician there: that your case is not as desperate, forlorn and remediless as that of the Devils and damned is. There is but one case excepted from cure, and that such as is not incident to any sensible afflicted soul,