A39669:1428
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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In the fourth place, let me exhort and persuade all to 1make Jesus Christ the desire and choice of their souls. And here I fall in with the main scope and design of the Gospel: and Oh that I could effectually press home this Exhortation upon your hearts. Let me offer some moving Considerations to you, and the Lord accompany them to your hearts.
In the fourth place, let me exhort and perswade all to 1make Jesus Christ the desire and choice of their souls. And here I fall in with the main scope and design of the Gospel: and Oh that I could effectually press home this Exhortation upon your hearts. Let me offer some moving Considerations to you, and the Lord accompany them to your hearts.
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First, Every Creature naturally desires its own preservation, do not you desire the preservation of your precious and immortal souls? If you do, then make Christ your desire and choice, without whom they can never be preserved, Jude vers. 1.
Secondly, don't your souls earnestly desire the bodies they live in? how tender are they over them, how careful to provide for them? though they pay a dear rent for those Tenements they live in: and is not union with Christ infinitely more desirable than the union of soul and body? Oh covet union with him, then shall your souls be happy, when your bodies drop off from them at death,