A39669:1776
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.
There are two sorts of joy upon which the unregenerate live,
viz. 1. A sensitive joy in things Carnal. 2. A delusive joy in things Spiritual.
They rejoice in Corn, Wine and Oil, in their Estates and Children, in the pleasant fruitions of the Creature: yea, and they rejoice also in Christ and the Promises, in Heaven and Glory: with all which they have just such a kind of communion as a man hath in a dream with a full feast and curious music, and just so their joy will vanish when they awake. Now these three, security, hope and joy make up the livelihood of the carnal world.
They rejoyce in Corn, Wine and Oyl, in their Estates and Children, in the pleasant fruitions of the Creature: yea, and they rejoyce also in Christ and the Promises, in Heaven and Glory: with all which they have just such a kind of communion as a man hath in a dream with a full feast and curious musick, and just so their joy will vanish when they awake. Now these three, security, hope and joy make up the livelihood of the carnal world.
Secondly, Next it concerns us to enquire what are the 1