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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.
O Reader, pause a little upon this ere thou pass on, ask thy heart whether it be so with thee: are holy duties connatural to thee? doth thy soul move and work after God by a kind of supernatural instinct? this then will be to thee a good evidence of thy integrity.
Secondly, From this infused principle of life, results the Excellency of our obedience, as well as the sincerity of it: for by virtue and reason thereof, it becomes free and voluntary, not forced and constrained, it drops like honey of its own accord out of the Comb, Cant. 4. 11. without squeezing: or as waters from the fountain without forcing, Joh. 4. 14. An unprincipled professor must be squeezed by some weight of affliction, ere he will yield one tear, or pour out a prayer, Psal. 78. 34. when he slew them, then they sought him.
Secondly, From this infused principle of life, results the Excellency of our obedience, as well as the sincerity of it: for by vertue and reason thereof, it becomes free and voluntary, not forced and constrained, it drops like honey of its own accord out of the Comb, Cant. 4. 11. without squeezing: or as waters from the fountain without forcing, Joh. 4. 14. An unprincipled professor must be squeez'd by some weight of affliction, ere he will yield one tear, or pour out a prayer, Psal. 78. 34. when he slew them, then they sought him.