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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.
Secondly, Know also that there is a great difference betwixt spiritual death, and spiritual deadness: the former is the state of the unregenerate; the latter is the disease and complaint of many thousand regenerate souls: If David had not felt it as well as thee, he would never have cried out nine times in the compass of one Psalm, Quicken me, quicken me. Besides,
Secondly, Know also that there is a great difference betwixt spiritual death, and spiritual deadness: the former is the state of the unregenerate; the latter is the disease and complaint of many thousand regenerate souls: If David had not felt it as well as thee, he would never have cryed out nine times in the compass of one Psalm, Quicken me, quicken me. Besides,
Thirdly, Though it be often, it is not always so with thee: there are seasons wherein the Lord breaks in upon ⟨p. 423⟩thy heart, enlarges thy affections; and sets thy soul at liberty: to which times thou wilt do well to have an eye, in these dark and cloudy days.
Thirdly, Though it be often, it is not alwayes so with thee: there are seasons wherein the Lord breaks in upon ⟨p. 423⟩thy heart, enlarges thy affections; and sets thy soul at liberty: to which times thou wilt do well to have an eye, in these dark and cloudy dayes.
But the Spirit of God is a comforter as well as a sanctifier: 1he doth not only enable men to believe, but after they believe he also seals them,