A39669:2324
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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Secondly, If sin be dying, your souls are living; for dying unto sin, and living unto God are inseparably connected, Rom. 6. 11.
Thirdly, If sin be dying in you, it is certain that Christ died for you, and you cannot desire a better Evidence of it, Rom. 6. 5, 6.
Fourthly, If sin be dying under the Mortifying influences of the spirit, and it be your daily labour to resist and overcome it, you are then in the direct way to heaven, and eternal salvation; which few, very few in the world shall find, Luke 13. 24.
Fifthly, To shut up all, if you through the spirit be daily mortifying the deeds of the body, then the death of Christ is effectually applied by the spirit unto your souls, and your interest in him is unquestionable: for they that are Christs have Crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts, and they that have so Crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts, are Christs.