A39669:1443
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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Direction 3.
Consider the way and course you have taken, since you came into the world; proceeding from iniquity to iniquity. What Command of God have you not violated a thousand times over? What sin is committed in the world, that you are not one way or other guilty of before God? How many secret sins are upon your score, unknown to the most intimate Friend you have in the world? Either this guilt must be separated from your souls, or your souls from God to all eternity.
Direction 4.
Think upon the severe wrath of God due to every sin, The wages of sin is death, Rom. 6. ult. and how intolerable the fullness of that wrath must be when a few drops sprinkled upon the Conscience in this world is so insupportable, that it hath made some to choose strangling rather than life: and yet this wrath must abide for ever upon you, if you get not interest in Jesus Christ, Joh. 3. 63.
Think upon the severe wrath of God due to every sin, The wages of sin is death,