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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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Such an invaluable Pearl is Jesus Christ, infinitely more worth than all that a poor sinner hath to part with for him, and is a more real good than the creature. These are but vain shadows, Prov. 23. 5. Christ is a solid substantial good: yea, he is, and by Conviction appears to be a more suitable good than the creature: the world cannot justify and save, but Christ can. Christ is a more necessary good than the creature, this is for our temporal Conveniency, but he of eternal necessity. He is a more Durable good than any creature ⟨p. 75⟩comfort is or can be: the fashion of this world passeth away, 1 Cor. 7. 31. but durable riches and righteousness are in him, Prov. 8. 17. Thus Christ appears in the day of conviction infinitely more excellent than the world, he out-bids all the offers that the world can make, and this gives the main stroke to this work, of drawing a Soul to Jesus Christ.
Such an invaluable Pearl is Jesus Christ, infinitely more worth than all that a poor sinner hath to part with for him, and is a more real good than the creature. These are but vain shadows, Prov. 23. 5. Christ is a solid substantial good: yea, he is, and by Conviction appears to be a more suitable good than the creature: the world cannot justifie and save, but Christ can. Christ is a more necessary good than the creature, this is for our temporal Conveniency, but he of eternal necessity. He is a more Durable good than any creature ⟨p. 75⟩comfort is or can be: the fashion of this world passeth away, 1 Cor. 7. 31. but durable riches and righteousness are in him, Prov. 8. 17. Thus Christ appears in the day of conviction infinitely more excellent than the world, he out-bids all the offers that the world can make, and this gives the main stroke to this work, of drawing a Soul to Jesus Christ.