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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
Sermon 28 › DOCT. › Section 3 › Subsection 2: 2. Meditation.
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2. Meditation.
Think what it cost the Lord Jesus Christ to expiate the guilt 1of sin by suffering the wrath of the great and terrible God for it in our room: the meditations of a crucified Christ, are very crucifying meditations unto sin. Gal. 6. 14. He suffered unspeakable things for sin: it was Divine wrath which lay upon his soul for it: that wrath of which the prophet saith, Nah. 1. 5, 6. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. It was the unmixed, and unallayed wrath, poured out in the fullness of it; even to the last drop, and shall we be so easily drawn to the Commission of those sins which put Christ under such sufferings? O do but read such scriptures as these, Luke 22. 44. Mat. 26. 36, 37. Mark 14. 33. And see what a plight sin put the Lord of glory into: how the ⟨p. 489⟩wrath of God put him into a sore amazement, a bloody sweat, and made his soul heavy even unto death.
Think what it cost the Lord Jesus Christ to expiate the guilt