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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
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.
Rule 2.
There is a great difference in the manner of the spirits working before, and after the work of regeneration: whilst we are unregenerate, he works upon us as upon dead Creatures that work not at all with him; and what motion there is in our souls, is a counter-motion to the spirit: but after regeneration it is not so, he then works upon a complying and willing mind: we work and he assists, Rom. 8. 26. our conscience witnesseth, and he beareth witness with it, Rom. 8. 16. It is therefore an Error of dangerous consequence to think that sanctified persons are not bound to stir or strive in the way of duty without a sensible impulse or preventing motion of the spirit, Isa. 64. 7.
There is a great difference in the manner of the spirits working before, and after the work of regeneration: whilest we are unregenerate, he works upon us as upon dead Creatures that work not at all with him; and what motion there is in our souls, is a counter-motion to the spirit: but after regeneration it is not so, he then works upon a complying and willing mind: we work and he assists, Rom. 8. 26. our conscience witnesseth, and he beareth witness with it, Rom. 8. 16. It is therefore an Errour of dangerous consequence to think that sanctified persons are not bound to stir or strive in the way of duty without a sensible impulse or preventing motion of the spirit, Isa. 64. 7.