A39669:2266
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.
3d. Use for Direction.
Are you convinced and fully satisfied of the excellency and 1necessity of mortification, and inquisitive after the means, in the use whereof it may be attained? then for your help and encouragement I will in the next place offer my best assistance, in laying down the rules for this work.
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1. Rule.
If ever you will succeed and prosp• in the work of mortification, 1then get and daily exercise more faith. Faith is the great instrument of mortification. This is the victory (or sword by which the victory is won, the instrument) by which you overcome the world, even your faith, 1 John 5. 4. By faith alone eternal things are discovered to our souls in their reality and excelling glory, and these are the preponderating things for the sake whereof self-denial and mortification becomes easy to believers; by opposing things eternal to things temporal we resist