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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.
7. Rule.
Set in with the mortifying design of God in the day of thine affliction. Sanctified afflictions are ordered and prescribed in 1heaven for the purging of our corruptions. Isa. 27. 9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his sin. 'Tis a fair glass to represent the evil of sin, and the vanity of the creature, to embitter the world, and disgust thy affections towards it: fall in therefore with the gracious design of God, follow home every affliction with prayer, that God would follow it with his blessing. God kills thy comforts out of no other design but to kill thy corruptions with them. Wants are ordained to kill wantonness: poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to pull down ambition: Happy is the man who understands, approves, and heartily sets in with the design of God in such afflicting providences.
Set in with the mortifying design of God in the day of thine affliction. Sanctified afflictions are ordered and prescribed in 1heaven for the purging of our corruptions. Isa. 27. 9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his sin. 'Tis a fair glass to represent the evil of sin, and the vanity of the creature, to imbitter the world, and disgust thy affections towards it: fall in therefore with the gracious design of God, follow home every affliction with prayer, that God would follow it with his blessing. God kills thy comforts out of no other design but to kill thy corruptions with them. Wants are ordained to kill wantonness: poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to pull down ambition: Happy is the man who understands, approves, and heartily sets in with the design of God in such afflicting providences.