A39669:1759
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.
First, The opinion Paul had, and all unregenerate men have of themselves before Conversion: I was alive once: by 1life understand here liveliness, cheerfulness, and confidence of his good estate and condition: he was full of vain hope, false joy and presumptuous confidence, a very brisk and jovial man.
First, The opinion Paul had, and all unregenerate men have of themselves before Conversion: I was alive once: by 1life understand here liveliness, chearfulness, and confidence of his good estate and condition: he was full of vain hope, false joy and presumptuous confidence, a very brisk and jovial man.
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Secondly, The sense and opinion he had, and all others will have of themselves, if ever they come under the regenerating 1work of the Spirit in his ordinary method of working: I died. The death he here speaks of, stands opposed to that life before mentioned; and signifies the sorrows, fears and tremblings that seized upon his soul, when his state and temper were upon the change: the apprehensions he then had of his condition struck him home to the heart and damped all his carnal mirth: I died.
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Thirdly, The ground and reason of this wonderful alteration and change of his judgement, and apprehension of