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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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Inference 9.
How deeply hath sin fixed its roots in our corrupt nature, that it should be the constant work of a Christians whole life, to mortify 1and destroy it? God hath given us many excellent helps, his spirit within us, variety of ordinances and duties are also appointed as instruments of Mortification: And from the very day of Regeneration unto the last moment of dissolution the Christian is daily at work in the use of all sanctified means external and internal, yet can never dig up, and destroy corruption at the root all his life long. The most eminent Christians of longest standing in Religion, who have shed Millions of tears for sin, and poured out many thousand Prayers for the Mortification of it; do after all find the grudgings of their old disease, that there is still life and strength in those corruptions which they have given so many wounds unto in duty. O the depth and strength of sin! which nothing can separate from us, but that which separates our souls and bodies. And upon that account the day of a believers death, is better than the day of his birth. Never till then, do we put off our armour, sheath our sword, and cry victory, victory.
How deeply hath sin fixed its roots in our corrupt nature, that it should be the constant work of a Christians whole life, to mortifie 1and destroy it? God hath given us many excellent helps, his spirit within us, variety of ordinances and duties are also appointed as instruments of Mortification: And from the very day of Regeneration unto the last moment of dissolution the Christian is daily at work in the use of all sanctified means external and internal, yet can never dig up, and destroy corruption at the root all his life long. The most eminent Christians of longest standing in Religion, who have shed Millions of tears for sin, and poured out many thousand Prayers for the Mortification of it; do after all find the grudgings of their old disease, that there is still life and strength in those corruptions which they have given so many wounds unto in duty. O the depth and strength of sin! which nothing can separate from us, but that which separates our souls and bodies. And upon that account the day of a believers death, is better than the day of his birth. Never till then, do we put off our armour, sheath our sword, and cry victory, victory.