A39669:1527
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.
In the Third place, I am to show you, that Believers, and 1none but Believers can have consolation in Christ: which will convincingly appear from the consideration of those things which we laid down before, as the requisites to all true Spiritual Consolation. For,
In the Third place, I am to shew you, that Believers, and 1none but Believers can have consolation in Christ: which will convincingly appear from the consideration of those things which we laid down before, as the requisites to all true Spiritual Coonsolation. For,
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First, No unbeliever hath the materials out of which Spiritual Comfort is made; which (as I there told you) must be some solid, spiritual and eternal good, as Christ and the Covenant are. What do unregenerate men rejoice in, but trifles and mere vanities, in a thing of nought? Amos 6. 13. See how their mirth is described in Job 21. 12. They take their Timbrel and Harp, and rejoice at the sound of the Organ. He doth not say, they take the Bible, turn to the promises, and rejoice in Christ and the Covenant; 'tis not the melody of a good Conscience, the joy of the Holy Ghost: no, no, they have no acquaintance with such music as that: but the rejoicing of Believers is in those things, 2 Cor. 1. 12. And this is well-built consolation which reaches the heart.
First, No unbeliever hath the materials out of which Spiritual Comfort is made; which (as I there told you) must be some solid, spiritual and eternal good, as Christ and the Covenant are. What do unregenerate men rejoyce in, but trifles and meer vanities, in a thing of nought?