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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.
First, Whatever my distresses are for quality, number, or degree, they are all known even to the least circumstance by Christ my head: he looks down from heaven upon all my afflictions, and understands them more fully than I that feel them. Psal. 38. 9. Lord all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.
Secondly, He not only knows them, but feels them, as well as knows them: we have not an high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, Heb. 4. 15. in all your afflictions he is afflicted: tender Sympathy cannot but flow from such intimate Union: therefore in Matth. 25. 35. he saith, I was an hungered, and I was a thirst, and I was naked. For indeed his Sympathy and tender compassion gave him as quick a resentment, and as tender a sense of their wants, as if they had been his own: yea,
Secondly, He not only knows them, but feels them, as well as knows them: we have not an high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, Heb. 4. 15. in all your afflictions he is afflicted: tender Sympathy cannot but flow from such intimate Union: therefore in Matth. 25. 35. he saith, I was an hungred, and I was a thirst, and I was naked. For indeed his Sympathy and tender compassion gave him as quick a resentment, and as tender a sense of their wants, as if they had been his own: yea,