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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Are the hopes and expectation of Heaven and glory comfortable? Yes sure, nothing is comfortable if this be not, Rom. 5. 2. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Now, Christ brings to the souls of men all the solid grounds and foundations upon which they build their expectations of glory, Col. 1. 27. Which is Christ, in you, the hope of glory. Name any thing else that is solid matter of comfort to the souls of men, and the grounds thereof will be found in Christ, and in none but Christ; as might easily be demonstrated by the enumeration of multitudes of particular instances, which I cannot now insist upon.
Are the hopes and expectation of Heaven and glory comfortable? Yes sure, nothing is comfortable if this be not, Rom. 5. 2. We rejoyce in hope of the glory of God. Now, Christ brings to the souls of men all the solid grounds and foundations upon which they build their expectations of glory, Col. 1. 27. Which is Christ, in you, the hope of glory. Name any thing else that is solid matter of comfort to the souls of men, and the grounds thereof will be found in Christ, and in none but Christ; as might easily be demonstrated by the enumeration of multitudes of particular instances, which I cannot now insist upon.
Secondly, Jesus Christ removes from Believers, whatever is uncomfortable; therein relieving them against all the matters of their affliction and sorrow. As namely,
Secondly, Jesus Christ removes fom Believers, whatever is uncomfortable; therein relieving them against all the matters of their affliction and sorrow. As namely,