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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.
5. Med.
Consider what the damned suffer for those sins which the devil now tempteth you to commit: it hath deprived them of all 1good, all outward good, Luke 16. 25. all spiritual good, Mat. 25. 41. and of all hope of enjoying any good for ever. And as it hath deprived them of all good, so it hath remedilessly plunged them into all positive misery. Misery from without, the wrath of God being come upon them to the uttermost, and misery from within, for their worm dieth not, Mark 9. 44. The memory of things past, the sense of things present, and the fearful expectations of things to come, are the nibblings and bitings of the worm of conscience, at every bite whereof damned souls give a dreadful shriek, crying out, O the worm! the worm! Would any man that is not forsaken by reason, run the hazard of those eternal miseries for the brutish pleasures of a moment?
Consider what the damned suffer for those sins which the devil now tempteth you to commit: it hath deprived them of all 1good, all outward good, Luke 16. 25. all spiritual good, Mat. 25. 41. and of all hope of enjoying any good for ever. And as it hath deprived them of all good, so it hath remedilesly plunged them into all positive misery. Misery from without, the wrath of God being come upon them to the uttermost, and misery from within, for their worm dieth not,