A39669:2473
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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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, Jer. 31. 20. Your sins grieve him, but your sorrows please him.
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Though God have left many defects to humble you, yet he hath given many things to comfort you. This is a 1comfort, that the desire of thy soul is to God, and to the remembrance of his name. This is a comfort, that thy sins are not thy delight as once they were; but thy shame and sorrow. This is a comfort, that thy case is not singular; but more or less the same complaints and sorrows are found in all gracious souls through the world; and to say all in one word This is the comfort above all comforts, that the time is at hand in which all thse defects, infirmities and failings shall be done away,