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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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Inference 7.
Lastly, How incongruous are carnal ways and courses to the spirit of Christians? who being new creatures can never delight or 1find pleasure in their former sinful companions and practices? Alas, those things are now most unsuitable, loathsome and detestable, how pleasant soever they once were: that which they counted their liberty, would now be reckoned their greatest bondage: that which was their glory is now their shame, Rom. 6. 21. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed, for the end of those things is death: they need not be pressed by others, but will freely confess of themselves what fools and mad men they once were: none can censure their former conversation more severely than themselves do, 1 Tim. 1. 13, 14.
Lastly, How incongruous are carnal wayes and courses to the spirit of Christians? who being new creatures can never delight or 1find pleasure in their former sinful companions and practices? Alas, those things are now most unsuitable, loathsom and detestable, how pleasant soever they once were: that which they counted their liberty, would now be reckoned their greatest bondage: that which was their glory is now their shame, Rom. 6. 21. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed, for the end of those things is death: they need not be pressed by others, but will freely confess of themselves what fools and mad men they once were: none can censure their former conversation more severely than themselves do,