A39669:1447
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 5.
Ponder well the happy state and condition they are in, who have obtained pardon and peace by Jesus Christ, Psal. 32. 12. And seeing the grace of God is free, and you are yet under the means thereof, why may not you be as capable thereof as others?
Direction 6.
Seriously consider the great uncertainty of your time, and preciousness of the opportunities of salvation, never to be recovered when they are once past, Joh. 9. 4. Let this provoke you to lay hold upon those golden seasons, whilst they are yet with you; that you may not bewail your folly and madness when they are out of your reach.