A39669:2163
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.
4th. Use for Exhortation.
If the new Creation be a sound evidence of our interest in Christ, then hence let me persuade all that are in Christ to 1evidence themselves to be so, by walking as it becomes new Creatures.
If the new Creation be a sound evidence of our interest in Christ, then hence let me perswade all that are in Christ to 1evidence themselves to be so, by walking as it becomes new Creatures.
- 1Use 4.
The new Creature is born from above, all its tendencies are Heaven-ward; accordingly •et your affections on things that are above, and let your conversation be in Heaven: if you live earthly and sensual lives, as others do; you must cross your new Creature therein, and can those acts be pleasant unto you which are done with so much regret? wherein you must put a force upon your own spirits, and offer a kind of violence to your own hearts? Earthly delights and sorrows are suitable enough to the unregenerate, and sensual men of the world: but exceedingly contrary unto that spirit by which you are renovated. If ever you will act becoming the principles and nature of new Creatures, then seek earthly things with submission, enjoy them with fear and caution, resign them with cheerfulness and readiness: and thus let your moderation be known unto all men,