A39669:1489
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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What delight should Christians take in their daily converse with Jesus Christ in the way of duty? Your converses in prayer, hearing, ⟨p. 285⟩1and meditation are with the Lord of Glory: the greatest Peers in a Kingdom, account it more honour to be in the presence of a King bareheaded, or upon the knee at Court, than to have thousands standing bare to them in the Country. When you are called to duties of communion with Christ, you are called to the greatest honour, dignified with the noblest privilege creatures are capable of in this world: had you but a sense of that honour God puts upon you by this means, you would not need so much tugging and striving to bring a dead and backward heart into the special presence of Jesus Christ. When he saith, seek ye my face, your hearts would echo to his calls, thy face, Lord, will we seek: But alas, the glory of Christ is much hid and veiled by ignorance and unbelief from the eyes of his own people; 'tis but seldom the best of Saints, by the eye of faith, do see the King in his Glory.
What delight should Christians take in their daily converse with Jesus Christ in the way of duty? Your converses in prayer, hearing, ⟨p. 285⟩1and meditation are with the Lord of Glory: the greatest Peers in a Kingdom, account it more honour to be in the presence of a King bareheaded, or upon the knee at Court, than to have thousands standing bare to them in the Country. When you are called to duties of communion with Christ, you are called to the greatest honour, dignified with the noblest priviledge creatures are capable of in this world: had you but a sense of that honour God puts upon you by this means, you would not need so much tugging and striving to bring a dead and backward heart into the special presence of Jesus Christ. When he saith, seek ye my face, your hearts would echo to his calls, thy face, Lord, will we seek: But alas, the glory of Christ is much hid and vailed by ignorance and unbelief from the eyes of his own people; 'tis but seldom the best of Saints, by the eye of faith, do see the King in his Glory.
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