A39669:1194
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 3.
If Christ be the only Physician of sick souls, what sin and folly is it for men to take Christs work out of his hands, and attempt 1to be their own Physicians?
- 1Inference 3.
Thus do those that superstitiously endeavour to heal their souls by afflicting their bodies: not Christs blood, but their own must be the Plaster: and as blind Papists, •o many carnal and ignorant Protestants strive by confession, restitution, reformation, and a stricter course of life to heal those wounds that sin hath made upon their souls, without any respect to the blood of Christ: but this course shall not profit them at all. It may for a time divert, but can never heal them: the wounds so skinned over, ⟨p. 227⟩will open and bleed again; God grant it be not when our souls shall be out of the reach of the true and only remedy.
Thus do those that superstitiously endeavour to heal their souls by afflicting their bodies: not Christs blood, but their own must be the Plaister: and as blind Papists, •o many carnal and ignorant Protestants strive by confession, restitution, reformation, and a stricter course of life to heal those wounds that sin hath made upon their souls, without any respect to the blood of Christ: but this course shall not profit them at all. It may for a time divert, but can never heal them: the wounds so skinned over,