A39669:2264
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.
6. Motive
To conclude, what an hard•tug will you have in your dying 1hour except you get a heart mortified to this world, and all that is in it? your parting hour is like to be a dreadful hour without the help of mortification. Your corruptions like glue fasten your affections to the world, and how hard will it be for such a man to be separated by death? O what a bitter and doleful parting have carnal hearts from carnal things! whereas the mortified soul can receive the messengers of death without trouble, and as cheerfully put off the body at death, as a man doth his clothes at night: death need not pull, and hale; such a man goes half way to meet it. Phil. 1. 23. I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, which is far better. Christian, wouldst thou have thy death bed soft and easy? wouldst thou have an [Greek or Hebrew], as the Philosopher desired for himself, an easy death without pain or terror; then get a mortified heart: the Chirurgeons knife is scarce felt, when it cuts off a mortified member.
To conclude, what an hard•tug will you have in your dying 1hour except you get a heart mortified to this world, and all that is in it? your parting hour is like to be a dreadful hour without the help of mortification. Your corruptions like glew fasten your affections to the world, and how hard will it be for such a man to be separated by death? O what a bitter and doleful parting have carnal hearts from carnal things! whereas the mortified soul can receive the messengers of death without trouble, and as cheerfully put off the body at death, as a man doth his clothes at night: death need not pull, and hale; such a man goes half way to meet it.