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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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How unreasonable and worse than brutish is the sin of infidelity by which the Sinner rejects Christ, and with him all those mercies 1and benefits which alone can relieve and cure his misery!
How unreasonable and worse than bruitish is the sin of infidelity by which the Sinner rejects Christ, and with him all those mercies 1and benefits which alone can relieve and cure his misery!
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He is by nature blind and ignorant, and yet refuses Christ, who comes to him with heavenly light and wisdom: he is condemned by the terrible sentence of the Law to eternal wrath, and yet rejects Christ who tenders to him complete and perfect righteousness: he is wholly polluted and plunged into original and actual pollutions of nature and practice, yet will have none of Christ, who would become sanctification to him: he is oppressed in soul and body with the deplorable effects and miseries sin hath brought upon him, and yet is so in love with his bondage that he will neither accept Christ, nor the redemption he brings with him to sinners.
He is by nature blind and ignorant, and yet refuses Christ, who comes to him with heavenly light and wisdome: he is condemned by the terrible sentence of the Law to eternal wrath, and yet rejects Christ who tenders to him compleat and perfect righteousness: he is wholly polluted and plunged into original and actual pollutions of nature and practice, yet will have none of Christ, who would become sanctification to him: he is oppressed in soul and body with the deplorable effects and miseries sin hath brought upon him, and yet is so in love with his bondage that he will neither accept Christ, nor the redemption he brings with him to sinners.