A39669:2531
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 5.
If this be so, then unregenerate persons deserve the greatest lamentations. 1And were this truth heartily believed, we could ⟨p. 538⟩not but mourn over them with the most tender compassion, and hearty sorrow. If our husbands, wives or children be dying a natural death, how are our hearts rent in pieces with pity and sorrow for them? what cries, tears, and wringing of hands discover the deep sense we have of their misery! O Christians, is all the love you have for your relations spent upon their bodies? Are their souls of no value in your eyes? is spiritual death no misery? Doth it not deserve a tear? The Lord open our eyes, and duly affect our hearts with spiritual death and soul miseries.
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Consider my friends, and let it move your bowels, (if there be bowels of affection in you) whilst they remain spiritually dead they are useless and wholly unserviceable unto God in the world as to any special and acceptable service unto him, 2 Tim. 2. 21. they are uncapable of all spiritual comforts from God: they cannot taste the least sweetness in Christ, in duties, or in promises,