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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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Fifthly, The crucifying of the flesh notes to us the Believers designed application of all spiritual means and sanctified instruments for the destruction of it: there is nothing in this world which a gracious heart more vehemently desires and longs for, than the death of sin, and perfect deliverance from it, Rom. 7. 2•. the sincerity of which desires doth accordingly manifest it self in the daily application of all Gods remedies, such are daily watching against the occasions of sin, Job 31. 1. I have made a Covenant with mine eyes; more than ordinary vigilancy over their special or proper sin, Psal. 18. 23. I kept my self from mine iniquity: earnest cries to Heaven for preventing grace, Psal. 19. 13. keep back thy Servant also from presumptuous sins, let them not have dominion over me: deep humbling of soul for sins past, which is an excellent preventive unto future sins, 2 Cor. 2. 11. in that he sorrowed ⟨p. 463⟩after a Godly sort, what carefulness it wrought? care to give no furtherance, or advantage to the design of sin, by making provision for the flesh, to fulfil the Lusts thereof, as others do, Rom. 13. 13, 14. willingness to bear the due reproofs of sin, Psal. 141. 5. Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness: these and such like means of mortification, regenerate souls are daily using; and applying in order to the death of sin. And so much of the first particular what the mortification of sin, or Crucifying of the flesh implies.
Fifthly, The crucifying of the flesh notes to us the Believers designed application of all spiritual means and sanctified instruments for the destruction of it: there is nothing in this world which a gracious heart more vehemently desires and longs for, than the death of sin, and perfect deliverance from it,