A39669:1765
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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DOCT. 1.
That unregenerate persons are generally full of groundless confidence 1and cheerfulness, though their condition be sad and miserable. Rev. 3. 17. Because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: this is the very life that unregenerate men do live.
That unregenerate persons are generally full of groundless confidence 1and chearfulness, though their condition be sad and miserable. Rev. 3. 17. Because thou saist I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: this is the very life that unregenerate men do live.
- 1Doct. 1.
In the opening whereof I will show you, 1. What is the life of the unregenerate. 2. What maintains that life. 3. How it appears that this is the life the generality of the world do live. 4. The danger of living such a life as this: and then apply it.