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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
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.
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If they that be Christs have crucified the flesh, then the life 1of Christians is no idle, or easy life: the corruptions of his heart continually fill his hands with work, with work of the most difficult nature, sin-crucifying work, which the Scripture calls the cutting off the right hand, and plucking out of the right eye: sin-crucifying work is hard work; and it is constant work, throughout the life of a Christian: there is no time or place freed from this conflict: every occasion stirs corruption, and every stirring of corruption calls for mortification: corruptions work in our very best duties, Rom. 7. 23. and put the Christian upon mortifying labours. The world and the Devil are great enemies and fountains of many temptations to Believers, but not like the corruptions of our own hearts: they only tempt objectively and externally; but this tempts internally, and therefore much more dangerous: they only tempt at times and seasons; this continually, at all times and seasons: beside, what ever Satan or the world attempts upon us would be altogether ineffectual, were it not for our own corruptions, John 14. 30