A39669:2292
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
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3. Med.
Consider what a grief, and wound the sins of believers are 1to the spirit of God, Eph. 4. 30. Ezek. 16. 43. Isa. 63. 10. Oh how it vexes, frets, and grieves the holy Spirit of God! Nothing is more contrary to his nature. Oh do not that abominable thing which I hate, saith the Lord, Jer. 44. 4. Nothing obstructs and crosses the sanctifying design of the Spirit as sin doth, defacing and spoiling the most rare, and admirable workmanship that ever God wrought in this world, violating all the engagements laid upon us by the love of the Father, by the death of his Son, by the operations of his Spirit, in all his illuminations, convictions, compunctions, renovation, preservation, obsignation, and manifold consolations. Lay this meditation upon thy heart believer, and say, sicne rependis? Dost thou thus requite the Lord, O my ungrateful heart, for all his goodness? is this the fruit of his temporal, spiritual, common, and peculiar mercies, which are without number?
- 1Med. 3.