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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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Fourthly, The crucifixion of sin doth not consist in the fever castigations of the body and penancing it by stripes, fasting and tiresome pilgrimages. This may pass for mortification among Papists, but never was any lust of the flesh destroyed by this rigour. Christians indeed are bound not to indulge and pamper the body which is the instrument of sin, nor yet must we think that the spiritual corruptions of the soul •eel those stripes which are inflicted upon the body: see Col. 2. 23. 'tis not the vanity of superstition, but the power of true religion which crucifies and destroys corruption: 'tis faith in Christs blood, not the spilling of our own blood, which gives sin the mortal wound.
Fourthly, The crucifixion of sin doth not consist in the fevere castigations of the body and penancing it by stripes, fasting and tiresome pilgrimages. This may pass for mortification among Papists, but never was any lust of the flesh destroyed by this rigour. Christians indeed are bound not to indulge and pamper the body which is the instrument of sin, nor yet must we think that the spiritual corruptions of the soul •eel those stripes which are inflicted upon the body: see Col. 2. 23. 'tis not the vanity of superstition, but the power of true religion which crucifies and destroys corruption: 'tis faith in Christs blood, not the spilling of our own blood, which gives sin the mortal wound.
Secondly, But if you enquire what then is implied in the 1mortification or crucifixion of sin, and wherein it doth consist? I answer,
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