A39669:414
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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3. Evidence.
Many of us are not reconciled to the duties of religion, and ways of holiness, and how then is it possible we should 1be reconciled to God? What, reconciled to God, and unreconciled to the ways of God? By reconciliation we are made nigh: in duties of Communion we draw nigh; and can we be made nigh to God, and have no heart to draw nigh to God? it can never be.
- 13. Evid.
Examine your hearts and say, is not the way of strictness a bondage to you? had you not rather be at liberty to fulfil the desires of the flesh and of the mind? Could you not wish that the Scriptures had not made some things else your sins and other things your duties? do you delight in the Law of God after the inner man, and esteem his Judgments concerning all things to be right? Do you love secret prayer, and delight ⟨p. 62⟩in duties of Communion with God; or rather are they not an ungrateful burden, and irksome imposition? give Conscience leave to speak plain.
Examine your hearts and say, is not the way of strictness a bondage to you? had you not rather be at liberty to fullfill the desires of the flesh and of the mind? Could you not wish that the Scriptures had not made some things else your sins and other things your duties? do you delight in the Law of God after the inner man, and esteem his Judgments concerning all things to be right? Do you love secret prayer, and delight