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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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(3.) That you steadily persevere in those good ways of God in which you have walked, and beware of heart or life apostasy. You expect happiness whilst God is in Heaven, and God expects holiness from you whilst you are on earth. It was an excellent truth which Tossanus yrecommended to his posterity in his last Will and Testament from his own experience. I beseech you, saith he, my dear Children and Kindred, that you never be ashamed of the truths of the Gospel, either by reason of scandals in the Church, or persecutions upon it; truth may labour for a time but cannot be conquered, and I have often found God to be wonderfully present with them that walk before him in truth, though ⟨image 7⟩for a time they may be oppressed with troubles and calumnies.
(3.) That you steddily persevere in those good wayes of God in which you have walked, and beware of heart or life apostasie. You expect happiness whilst God is in Heaven, and God expects holiness from you whilst you are on earth. It was an excellent truth which Tossanus yrecommended to his posterity in his last Will and Testament from his own experience. I beseech you, saith he, my dear Children and Kindred, that you never be ashamed of the truths of the Gospel, either by reason of scandals in the Church, or persecutions upon it; truth may labour for a time but cannot be conquered, and I have often found God to be wonderfully present with them that walk before him in truth, though ⟨image 7⟩for a time they may be opprest with troubles and calumnies.
- yObtestor etiam vos liberos, & generos charissimos ne illius veritatis evangelicae unquam vos pudeat: potest enim laborare, sed non vinci veritas: & non semel expertus sum Dominum Deum mirabiliter adesse iis qui coram ipso ambulant, & in sua vocatione sedulò & integrè versantur; licet ad tempus, odiis, aut simultatibus, aut calumniis agitentur. Melch. Adams in vita Tossani.