A39669:2703
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 this be so, let Christians be exact, and circumspect in their walking, lest they lay a stumbling block in the way of the blind. 1'Tis a great sin to do so in a proper sense, Lev. 19. 14. Thou shalt not put a stumbling block before the blind. And a far greater to do it in a Metaphorical sense, Rom. 14. 13. 'Tis the express will of God, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brothers way. 'Tis an argument of little regard to the honour of Christ, or the souls of men so to do. O professors, look to your steps. The Devil desires to make use of you for such purposes. The sins of thousands of others who make no profession of godliness, will never so fit his purpose for the blinding of those mens eyes, as the least slip or failing of yours will do. 'Tis the living bird that makes the best stale to draw others into the net: the grossest wickedness of profane sinners passeth away in silence, but all the neighbourhood shall ring with your miscarriages. A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring, Prov. 25. 26. The scandalous falls of good men are like a bag of poison cast by Satan into the Spring from whence the whole town is supplied with water. You little know what mischiefs you do, and how many blind sinners may fall into hell by your occasion.
If this be so, let Christians be exact, and circumspect in their walking, lest they lay a stumbling block in the way of the blind. 1