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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.
4. Evidence.
Many of us are not Enemies to sin, and how then are we reconciled to God? what, friends with God, and our Lusts 1too? it cannot be. Psal. 97. 10. Ye that love the Lord hate evil: the same hour our reconciliation is made with God, there is an everlasting breach made with sin: this is one of the Articles or Conditions of our peace with God, Isai. 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, and he will abundantly pardon.
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But it's manifest in many of us that we are no enemies to sin, we secretly indulge it, what bad names soever we call it by: we will commit ten sins to cover one: we cannot endure the most serious faithful, seasonable, private, tender, and necessary reproofs of Sin, but our hearts swell and rise at it: sure we are not reconciled to God, whilst we embrace sin his enemy in our bosoms.
But it's manifest in many of us that we are no enemies to sin, we secretly indulge it, what bad names soever we call it by: we will commit ten sins to cover one: we cannot endure the most serious faithful, seasonable, private, tender, and necessary reproofs of Sin, but our hearts swell and rise at it: sure we are not reconciled to God, whilest we embrace sin his enemy in our bofoms.