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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
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Propos. 6.
The Application of Christ by the work of regeneration is that which yields unto men all the sensible sweetness and refreshing comforts 1that they have in Christ, and in all that he hath done, suffered, or purchased for sinners.
- 1Propos. 6.
An unsanctified person may relish the natural sweetness of the creature, as well as he that is sanctified; he may also seem to relish and taste some sweetness in the delicious promises and discoveries of the Gospel by a misapplication of them to himself: but this is like the joy of a beggar dreaming he is a King; but he awakes and finds himself a beggar still: but for the rational, solid and genuine delights and comforts of religion, no man tastes it, till this work of the Spirit have first past upon his soul: it is an enclosed pleasure, a stranger intermeddles not with it. The white stone and the new name, (denoting the pleasant results and fruits of Justification and adoption) no man knows but he that receives it, Revel. 2. 7. there are all those things wanting in the unsanctified (though Elect) soul that should capacitate and enable it to relish the sweetness of Christ and Religion, namely, propriety, evidence, and suitableness of Spirit.