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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.
Tenthly, The new creature is a creature of wonderful preservations: there are many wonders of divine providences in 1the preservation of our natural lives, but none like those whereby the life of the new creature is preserved in our souls: there are critical times of temptation and desertion in which it is ready to dye, Rev. 3. 2. the degrees of its strength and liveliness are sometimes sadly abated, and […] sweet and comfortable workings intermitted, Rev. 2. 4. the evidences by ⟨p. 439⟩which its being in us was wont to be discovered, may be, and often are darkened, 2 Pet. 1. 9. and the soul in which it is may draw very sad conclusions about the issue and event; concluding its life not only to be hazarded but quite extinguished, Psal. 51. 10, 11, 12. but though it be ready to dye, God wonderfully preserves it from death: it hath as well its reviving as its fainting seasons: and thus you see what are the lovely and eximious properties of the new creature: In the next place,
Tenthly, The new creature is a creature of wonderful preservations: there are many wonders of divine providences in 1the preservation of our natural lives, but none like those whereby the life of the new creature is preserved in our souls: there are critical times of temptation and desertion in which it is ready to dye, Rev. 3. 2. the degrees of its strength and liveliness are sometimes sadly abated, and 〈…〉 sweet and comfortable workings intermitted, Rev. 2. 4. the evidences by ⟨p. 439⟩