A39669:2471
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.
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Your bewailed infirmities do not break the bond of the 1everlasting Covenant. The bond of the Covenant holds firm, notwithstanding your defects and weaknesses, Jer. 32. 40. Iniquities prevail against me, saith David, yet in the same breath he adds, as for our transgressions thou shalt purge them away, Psal. 65. 3. He's still thy God, thy Father for all this.
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Though the defects of your obedience are grievous to God, yet your deep sorrows for them are well-pleasing in his eyes, 1Psal. 51. 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ephraim was never a more pleasant child to his father, than when he moaned himself, and smote upon his thigh as thou dost,