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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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Next therefore, let me persuade every man to try the state of his own heart in this matter, and closely consider, and weigh 1this great question, Am I really and indeed a new creature, or am I an old creature still, in the new creatures dress and ⟨p. 451⟩habit? Some light may be given for the discovery hereof from the considerations of The | 1. Antecedents | of the new Creation. 2. Concomitants 3. Consequents
Next therefore, let me perswade every man to try the state of his own heart in this matter, and closely consider, and weigh 1this great question, Am I really and indeed a new creature, or am I an old creature still, in the new creatures dress and ⟨p. 451⟩habit? Some light may be given for the discovery hereof from the considerations of The | 1. Antecedents | of the new Creation. 2. Concomitants 3. Consequents
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First, weigh and consider well the Antecedents of the new creature: have those things past upon your souls which ordinarily make way for the new creature in whomsoever the Lord forms it?
First, hath the Lord opened the eyes of your understanding in the knowledge of sin, and of Christ? hath he showed you both your disease and remedy by a new light shining from heaven into your souls? Thus the Lord doth wherever he forms the new creature.