A39669:1487
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 8.
If Christ be so glorious, how should Believers long to be with 1him, and behold him in his glory above? Most men need patience to dye, a Believer should need patience to live. Paul thought it well worth enduring the pangs of death, to get a sight of Jesus Christ in his glory, Phil. 1. 23. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and patient waiting for of Christ, (saith the Apostle) 2 Thes. 3. 5. intimating that the Saints have great need of patience to enable them to endure the state of distance and separation from Christ, so long as they must endure it in this world. The Spirit and the Bride say come, and let him that heareth say come, and let him that is a thirst come, even so come Lord Jesus, and be thou as a swift Roe upon the Mountains of Separation.
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Blessed be God for Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory.