A39669:2293
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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4. Med.
Consider with your selves that no real good either of profit 1or pleasure can result from sin, you can have no pleasure in it, whatever others may have, it being against your new nature; and as for that brutish pleasure, and evanid joy which others have in sin, it can be but for a moment, for either they must repent, or not repent: if they do repent, the pleasure of sin will be turned into the gall of Asps here, if they do not repent, it will terminate in everlasting howlings hereafter: that's a smart question, Rom. 6. 21. What fruit had ye in those things whereof ye are now ashamed, for the end of those things is death. You that are believers must never expect any pleasure in sin, for you can neither commit it without regret, nor reflect upon it without shame and confusion: Expect no better consequents of sin, than the woundings of conscience, and dismal cloudings of the face of God; that is all the profit of sin. O let these things sink into your heart.
- 1Med. 4.