A39669:2443
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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What blessed times should we all see if true Religion did once generally obtain and prevail in the world! How would it humble 1the proud, weaken the passionate, and spiritualize those that are carnal! The perverse world charges Religion with all the tumults and disturbances that are in it, whenas nothing in the world but Religion advanced in the power of it can heal and cure these Epidemical evils. O if men were once brought under the power of Religion indeed, to walk after Christ in holiness, obedience, meekness, and self-denial; no such miseries as these would be heard of among us, Isa. 11. 8, 9. The sucking child shall play upon the hole of the Asp, and a weaned child shall put his hand on the Cockatrice den, they shall not burt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
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Hence it also follows, That real Christians are the sweetest companions, 'Tis a comfortable thing to walk with them that walk