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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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Rule 3.
Though the Spirit of God be given to believers, and worketh in them, yet believers themselves may do, or omit such things as may obstruct the working, and obscure the very being of the spirit of God in them; ita nos tractat, ut à nobis tractatur: he dealeth with us in his evidencing, and comforting work, as we deal with him in point of tenderness, and obedience to his dictates: there is a grieving, yea, there is a quenching of the Spirit by the lusts and corruptions of those hearts in which he dwelleth: and though he will not forsake his habitation as a ⟨p. 412⟩spirit of sanctification, yet he may for a time desert it as a spirit of consolation, Psal. 51. 11.
Though the Spirit of God be given to believers, and work•th in them, yet believers themselves may do, or omit such things as may obs•ruct the working, and obscure the very being of the spirit of God in them; ita nos tractat, ut à nobis tractatur: he dealeth with us in his evidencing, and comforting work, as we deal with him in point of tenderness, and obedience to his dictates: there is a grieving, yea, there is a quenching of the Spirit by the lusts and corruptions of those hearts in which he dwelleth: and though he will not forsake his habitation as a ⟨p. 412⟩spirit of sanctification, yet he may for a time desert it as a spirit of consolation, Psal. 51. 11.