A39669:2271
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.
3. Rule.
Keep your Consciences under the awe, and in the fear of 1God continually, as ever you hope to be successful in the Mortification of sin. The fear of God is the great preservative from sin, without which all the external rules and helps in the world signify nothing. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil. Prov. 16. 6. Not only from external and more open evils, which the fear of men as well as the fear of God may prevent, but from the most secret, and inward evils, which is a special part of Mortification. Levit. 19. 14. It keeps men from those evils which no eye, nor ear of man can possibly discover. The fear of the Lord breaks Temptations baited with pleasure, with profit and with secrecy. In a word, if ever you be cleansed from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, it must be by the fear of God. 2 Cor. 7. 1.
Keep your Consciences under the awe, and in the fear of 1God continually, as ever you hope to be successful in the Mortification of sin. The fear of God is the great preservative from sin, without which all the external rules and helps in the world signifie nothing. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil. Prov. 16. 6. Not only from external and more open evils, which the fear of men as well as the fear of God may prevent, but from the most secret, and inward evils, which is a special part of Mortification.