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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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Secondly, Let it be a word of counsel and exhortation to such as once were blind, but do now see.
First, I beseech you bless God for the least degree of spiritual illumination. Truly light is sweet, and 'tis a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun, Eccles. 11. 7. But Oh how sweet is spiritual light! and what a pleasant thing to behold the Son of Righteousness! Blessed are your eyes for they see. God hath brought you out of darkness into marvellous light. And marvellous indeed it must needs be, when you consider how many wise and prudent men are under the power of spiritual darkness, whilst such babes as you, are enlightened. Mat. 11. 25. It greatly affected the heart of Christ, O let it affect yours also.
Secondly, Labour to get a clearer sight of spiritual things every day. For all spiritual light is increasing light, which ⟨p. 592⟩shineth more and more unto the perfect day, Prov. 4. 18. O if a little spiritual light be so comfortable, what would more be? The wisdom of God is a manifold wisdom, Eph. 3. 16. The best of us see but little of it. Labour therefore to know spiritual things more extensively, and more experimentally, Phil. 3. 8, 9. be still increasing in the knowledge of God.