A39669:2527
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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Inference 3.
If unregenerate souls de dead souls, what a fatal stroke doth death give to the bodies of all unregenerate men? A soul dead in sin, and 1a body dead by virtue of the curse for sin, and both soul and body remaining for ever under the power of eternal death, is so full and perfect a misery, as that nothing can be added to make it more miserable: 'tis the comfort of a Christian that he can say when death comes non omnis moriar, I shall not wholly die; there is a life I live which death cannot touch, Rom. 8. 13. The body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. Blessed and holy is he, that hath part in the first Resurrection, on such the second death hath no power. As death takes a believer from amidst many sorrows and troubles, and brings him to the vision of God, to the general assembly of all the perfected saints, to a state of complete freedom, and full satisfaction: so it drags the unregenerate from all his sensitive delights and comforts, to the place of torments. It buries the dead soul out of the presence of God for ever. 'Tis the king of terrors, 'tis a serpent with a deadly sting to every man that is out of Christ.
If unregenerate souls de dead souls, what a fatal stroke doth death give to the bodies of all unregenerate men? A soul dead in sin, and 1a body dead by vertue of the curse for sin, and both soul and body remaining for ever under the power of eternal death, is so full and perfect a misery, as that nothing can be added to make it more miserable: 'tis the comfort of a Christian that he can say when death comes non omnis moriar, I shall not wholly die; there is a life I live which death cannot touch,