A39669:2467
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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Your deep troubles for the defectiveness of your obedience, doth not argue you to be less, but more sanctified, than those 1who make no such complaints: for this proves you to be better acquainted with your own hearts, than others are, to have a deeper hatred of sin than others have, and to love God with a more fervent love than others do: the most eminent Saints have made the bitterest complaints upon this account, Psal. 65. 3. Rom. 7. 23, 24.
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The Lord makes excellent uses even of your infirmities and failings to do you good, and makes them turn to your unexpected 1advantage: For by these defects he hides pride from your eyes: he beats you off from self-dependence: he makes you to admire the riches of free grace: he makes you to long more ardently for heaven, and entertain the sweeter thoughts of death: and doth not the Lord then make blessed fruits to spring up to you from such a bitter root?