A39669:1369
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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Thirdly, No Friend sympathises so tenderly with his Friend in affliction, as Jesus Christ doth with his friends: in all our afflictions he is afflicted, Heb. 4. 15. He feels all our sorrows, wants and burdens as his own. Whence it is that the sufferings of Believers are called the sufferings of Christ, Col. 1. 24.
Thirdly, No Friend sympathises so tenderly with his Friend in affliction, as Jesus Christ doth with his friends: in all our afflictions he is afflicted, Heb. 4. 15. He feels all our sorrows, wants and burthens as his own. Whence it is that the sufferings of Believers are called the sufferings of Christ, Col. 1. 24.
Fourthly, No Friend in the world takes that complacency in his Friend as Jesus Christ doth in Believers, Cant. 4. 9. Thou hast ravished my heart (saith he to the Spouse) thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck: the Hebrew here rendered ravished, signifies to puff up, or to make one proud; how is the Lord Jesus pleased to glory in his people! how is he taken and delighted with those gracious ornaments which himself bestows upon them! no friend so lovely as Christ.
Fourthly, No Friend in the world takes that complacency in his Friend as Jesus Christ doth in Believers, Cant. 4. 9. Thou hast ravished my heart (saith he to the Spouse) thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck: the Hebrew here rendred ravished, signifies to puff up, or to make one proud; how is the Lord Jesus pleased to glory in his people! how is he taken and delighted with those gracious ornaments which himself bestows upon them! no friend so lovely as Christ.