A39669:1193
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 2.
What a powerful restraint from sin, is the very method ordained 1by God for the cure of it! Isai. 53. 5. by his stripes we are healed. The Physician must dye, that the Patient might live: no other thing but the blood, the precious blood of Christ ⟨p. 226⟩is found in Heaven or earth able to heal us, Heb. 9. 22. 26. This blood of Christ must be freshly applied to every new wound sin makes upon our souls, 1 John 2. 1, 2. every new sin wounds him afresh, opens the wounds of Christ anew. O think of this again, and again, you that so easily yield to the solicitations of Satan: is it so cheap and easy to sin, as you seem to make it? Doth the cure of souls cost nothing? True, it is free to us, but was it so to Christ? No, no, it was not; he knows the price of it, though you do not: hath Christ healed you by his stripes, and can you put him under fresh sufferings for you so easily? Have you forgot also your own sick days and nights for sin, that you are careless in resisting, and preventing it? Sure 'tis not easy for Saints to wound Christ and their own souls, at one stroke: if you renew your sins, you must also renew your sorrows and repentance, Psal. 51. Title. 2 Sam. 12. 13