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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Infer. 5.
Is there so strict and intimate a relation and Union betwixt Christ and the Saints? then surely they can never want what is good for 1their souls or bodies.
- 1Infer. 5. Qui misit filium, immisit spiritum, promisit vultum, quid tandem denegabit?
Every one naturally cares and provides for his own, especially for his own body; yet we can more easily violate the law of nature and be cruel to our own flesh, than Christ can ⟨p. 41⟩be so to his Mystical body. I know it's hard to rest upon and rejoice in a promise, when necessities pinch, and we see not from whence relief should arise: but oh what sweet satisfaction and comfort might a necessitous believer find in these considerations, would he but keep them upon his heart in such a day of straits!
Every one naturally cares and provides for his own, especially for his own body; yet we can more easily violate the law of nature and be cruel to our own flesh, than Christ can ⟨p. 41⟩be so to his Mystical body. I know it's hard to rest upon and rejoyce in a promise, when necessities pinch, and we see not from whence relief should arise: but oh what sweet satisfaction and comfort might a necessitous believer find in these considerations, would he but keep them upon his heart in such a day of straits!