A39669:2300
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.
7. Med.
Consider with your selves what hard things some Christians have chosen to endure and suffer, rather than they would defile 1themselves with guilt; and shall every small temptation ensnare and take your souls? Read over the Eleventh Chapter to the Hebrews, and see what the saints have endured to escape sin: no torments were so terrible to them, as the displeasure of God, and woundings of conscience; and did God oblige them more by his grace and favour than he hath obliged you? O Christians how can you that have found such mercies, mercies as free, pardons as full as ever any souls found, show less care, less fear, less tenderness of grieving God than others have done? Certainly, if you did see sin with the same eyes they saw it, you would hate it as deeply, watch against it as carefully, and resist it as vigorously as any of the Saints have done before you.
Consider with your selves what hard things some Christians have chosen to endure and suffer, rather than they would defile 1themselves with guilt; and shall every small temptation insnare and take your souls? Read over the Eleventh Chapter to the Hebrews, and see what the saints have endured to escape sin: no torments were so terrible to them, as the displeasure of God, and woundings of conscience; and did God oblige them more by his grace and favour than he hath obliged you? O Christians how can you that have found such mercies, mercies as free, pardons as full as ever any souls found, show less care, less fear, less tenderness of grieving God than others have done? Certainly, if you did see sin with the same eyes they saw it, you would hate it as deeply, watch against it as carefully, and resist it as vigorously as any of the Saints have done before you.