A39669:2313
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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Fifthly, In a word, though the thoughts of death may be terrible in themselves, yet if the expectation and hope of your deliverance from sin thereby, do sweeten the thoughts of it to your souls, it will turn unto you for a testimony that you are not the servants and friends of sin. And so much briefly of the first sort of Evidences.
Secondly, There are other signs of a more deep and through Mortification of sin in more grown and confirmed believers, and such are these.
First, The more submissive and quiet any man is under the will of God in smart and afflicting providences, the more that mans heart is mortified unto sin. Psal. 119. 67, 71. Col. 1. 11.
Secondly, The more able any one is to bear the reproaches and rebukes of his sin, the more Mortification there is in that man, Psal. 141. 5.