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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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Evidence 3.
That which is the fruit and evidence of saving faith, must needs be a good evidence of our interest in Christ; but mortify […] sin is the fruit and evidence of saving faith, Acts 15. 9. Purifying their hearts by faith, 1 John 5. 4. This is the victory whereby we overcome the world, even our faith: faith overcomes both the allurements of the world upon one hand, and the terrors of the world upon the other hand; by mortifying the heart, and affections to all earthly things: a mortified heart is not easily taken with the ensnaring pleasures of the world, or much moved with the disgraces, losses and sufferings it meets with from the world: ⟨p. 471⟩and so the strength and force of its temptations is broken, and the mortified soul becomes victorious over it, and all this by the instrumentality of faith.
That which is the fruit and evidence of saving faith, must needs be a good evidence of our interest in Christ; but mortifi• 〈…〉 sin is the fruit and evidence of saving faith, Acts 15. 9. Purifying their hearts by faith, 1 John 5. 4. This is the victory whereby we overcome the world, even our faith: faith overcomes both the allurements of the world upon one hand, and the terrors of the world upon the other hand; by mortifying the heart, and affections to all earthly things: a mortified heart is not easily taken with the ensnaring pleasures of the world, or much moved with the disgraces, losses and sufferings it meets with from the world: