A39669:2297
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.
6. Med.
Bethink your selves what inexcusable hypocrisy it will be in 1you to indulge your selves in the private satisfaction of your lusts, under a contrary profession of Religion: You are a people that profess holiness and professedly own your selves to be under the Government and Dominion of Christ, and must the worthy Name of Christ be only used to cloak and cover your lusts and corruptions which are so hateful to him? God forbid. You daily pray against sin, you confess it to God, you bewail it, you pour out supplications for pardoning and preventing grace, are you in jest or earnest in these solemn duties of Religion? Certainly, if all those duties produce no mortification, you do but flatter God with your lips, and put a dreadful cheat upon your own souls. Nay, do you not frequently censure, and condemn those things in others, and dare you allow them in your selves? What horrid hypocrisy is this? Christians are dead to sin, Rom. 6. 2. D•ad to it by profession, dead to it by obligation, dead to it by relation to Christ who died for it, and how shall they that are so many ⟨p. 491⟩ways dead to sin live any longer therein? O think not that God hates sin the less in you, because you are his people: nay, 2that very consideration aggravates it the more, Amos 3. 2.
Bethink your selves what inexcusable hypocrisie it will be in