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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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Thirdly, He not only knows and feels my wants, but hath enough in his hand, and much […] enough to supply them all: for all things are delivered to him by the Father, Luk: 10. 22. all the storehouses in heaven and earth are his, Phil. 4. 19.
Thirdly, He not only knows and feels my wants, but hath enough in his hand, and much 〈…〉 enough to supply them all: for all things are delivered to him by the Father, Luk: 10. 22. all the storehouses in heaven and earth are his, Phil. 4. 19.
Fourthly, He bestows all earthly good things even to superfluity and redundance upon his enemies, they have more than heart can wish, Psal. 73. 7. he is bountiful to strangers: he loads his very enemies with these things, and can it be supposed he will in the mean while starve his own, and neglect those whom he loves as his own flesh? it cannot be. Moreover
Fifthly, hitherto he hath not suffered me to perish in any former straits: when and where was it that he forsook me? this is not the first plunge of trouble I have been in: have I not found him a God at a pinch? how oft have I seen him in the Mount of difficulties!