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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.
How deplorable is the condition of the unregenerate world, in no better case than dead men! Now to affect our hearts with the 1misery of such a condition, let ut consider and compare it in the following particulars.
- 1Infer. 4.
First, There is no beauty in the dead, all their loveliness goes away at death; there is no spiritual beauty or loveliness in any that are unregenerate: 'tis true, many of them have excellent moral homiletical virtues, which adorn their conversations in the eyes of men; but what are all these, but so many sweet flowers strewed over a dead Corpse?
First, There is no beauty in the dead, all their loveliness goes away at death; there is no spiritual beauty or loveliness in any that are unregenerate: 'tis true, many of them have excellent moral homilitical vertues, which adorn their conversations in the eyes of men; but what are all these, but so many sweet flowers strewed over a dead Corpse?
Secondly, The dead have no pleasure nor delight: even so the unregenerate are incapable of the delights of the Christian life: to be spiritually minded is life and peace, Rom. 8. 6. (i. e.) this is the only serene, placid, and pleasant life: when the prodigal who was once dead, was alive, then he began to be merry, Luke. 15. 24. they live in sensual pleasures, but this is to be dead while alive in Scripture reckoning.