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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
Sermon 32 › DOCT. › The Uses follow. › Subsection 6: Inference 6.
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Inference 6.
Lastly, what cause have they to rejoice, admire, and praise the Lord to Eternity, who have a well grounded 1confidence that they are freed from Gods condemnation? O give thanks to the Father who hath delivered you from the power of darkness, and translated you into the Kingdom of his dear Son, Col. 1. 13. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for if you be freed from condemnation, you are out of Satan's power, he hath no more any dominion over you. The power of Satan over men comes in by virtue of their condemnation, as the power of the Jailer or Executioner over the bodies of condemned prisoners doth. Heb. 2. 14. If you be freed from condemnation, the sting of death shall never touch you. For the sting of death smites the souls of men with a deadly stroke only by virtue of Gods condemnatory sentence. 1 Cor. 15. 55, 56. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. If you be freed from condemnation now, you shall stand with comfort and boldness at the Judgement Seat of Christ in the great day, and verily in this thing is the love of God perfected, 1 John 4. 17. O 'tis a privilege in which the grace, mercy and love of God do •ine forth as clearly as the sun when it shineth in its full strength. And certainly you will find cause to lye at the feet of God astonished, and overwhelmed with the sense of this mercy, when you shall find your selves freed from the condemnation of God, whilst many others as good as you were, are still under condemnation. Yea, your selves freed, and many of your Superiors in the world still under the curse,