A39669:2462
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. Motive.
How comfortable will the close of your life be at death, if you have walked after Christs pattern and example in this 1world! A comfortable death is ordinarily the close of a holy life, Psal. 37. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. A loose careless life puts many terrible stings into death. As worms in the body are bred of the putrefaction there, so the worm of conscience is bred of the moral putrefaction, or corruption that is in our natures, and conversations. O then be prevailed with by all these considerations to imitate Christ in the whole course and compass of your conversations.
How comfortable will the close of your life be at death, if you have walked after Christs pattern and example in this 1world! A comfortable death is ordinarily the close of a holy life, Psal. 37. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. A loose careless life puts many terrible stings into death. As worms in the body are bred of the putrefaction there, so the worm of conscience is bred of the moral putrefaction, or corruption that is in our natures, and conversations. O then be prevailed with by all these considerations to imitate Christ in the whole course and compass of your coversations.
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