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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.
tO my heart (saith another) how is it thou art not drawn up by the very root by thy desires after Christ? The necessity and the trial of our union with, and interest in this lovely Lord Jesus, is the main subject of this discourse: without the personal application of Christ by faith, our hopes of Heaven are but deluding dreams, Heb. 3. 11. I sware in my wrath [Greek or Hebrew], ⟨image 6⟩if they shall enter into my rest: what then? Nay, there is all: but it is a dreadful Aposiopesis (as one calls it) such a pause, as may justly shake every vein of the unbelievers heart: if they shall enter, as if he had said, if ever they come into my glory, then say I am no God, for I have sworn the contrary.
tO my heart (saith another) how is it thou art not drawn up by the very root by thy desires after Christ? The necessity and the trial of our union with, and interest in this lovely Lord Jesus, is the main subject of this discourse: without the personal application of Christ by faith, our hopes of Heaven are but deluding dreams, Heb. 3. 11. I sware in my wrath 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ⟨image 6⟩if they shall enter into my rest: what then? Nay, there is all: but it is a dreadful Aposiopesis (as one calls it) such a pause, as may justly shake every vein of the unbelievers heart: if they shall enter, as if he had said, if ever they come into my glory, then say I am no God, for I have sworn the contrary.
- tO Cor meum quomodo non te evellis post tantum decorem? Niremberg. Vivere renuo, ut Christo vivam.