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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.
2. Rule.
Walk in daily communion with God, if ever you will mortify the corruptions of nature, that is the Apostles own prescription. 1Gal. 1. 16. This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. Spiritual and frequent communion with God, gives manifold advantages for the mortification of sin: as it is a bright glass wherein the holiness of God and the exceeding sinfulness of sin, as it is opposite thereunto, are most clearly and sensibly discovered, than which scarce any thing can set a keener edge of indignation upon the spirit of a man against fin. Besides, all communion with God is assimilating, and transformative of the soul into his image, it leaves also a heavenly relish and savour upon the soul: it darkens the lustre and glory of all earthly things, by presenting to the soul a Glory which excelleth. It marvellously improves, and more deeply radicates sanctification in the soul, by all which means it becomes singularly useful, and successful in the work of mortification.
Walk in daily communion with God, if ever you will mortifie the corruptions of nature, that is the Apostles own prescription. 1Gal. 1. 16. This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. Spiritual and frequent communion with God, gives manifold advantages for the mortification of sin: as it is a bright glass wherein the holiness of God and the exceeding sinfulness of sin, as it is opposite thereunto, are most clearly and sensibly discovered, than which scarce any thing can set a keener edge of indignation upon the spirit of a man against fin. Besides, all communion with God is assimilating, and transformative of the soul into his image, it leaves also a heavenly relish and savour upon the soul: it darkens the luster and glory of all earthly things, by presenting to the soul a Glory which excelleth. It marvelously improves, and more deeply radicates sanctification in the soul, by all which means it becomes singularly useful, and successful in the work of mortification.