A39669:643
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.
First, If there be spiritual sense in your souls, there is spiritual life in them: there are [Greek or Hebrew] senses belonging to the spiritual, as well as to the animal life, Heb. 5. 14. they can feel and sensibly groan under soul pressures, and burdens of ⟨p. 112⟩sin, Rom. 7. 24. the dead feel not, moan not under the burdens of sin, but the living do: they may be sensible indeed of the evil of sin with respect to themselves, but not as against God, damnation may scare them, but pollution doth not; hell may fright them, but not the offence of God.
First, If there be spiritual sense in your souls, there is spiritual life in them: there are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 senses belonging to the spiritual, as well as to the animal life, Heb. 5. 14. they can feel and sensibly groan under soul pressures, and burdens of ⟨p. 112⟩sin, Rom. 7. 24. the dead feel not, moan not under the burdens of sin, but the living do: they may be sensible indeed of the evil of sin with respect to themselves, but not as against God, damnation may scare them, but pollution doth not; hell may fright them, but not the offence of God.
Secondly, If there be spiritual hunger and thirst, it's a sweet sign of spiritual life; this sign agrees to Christians of a day old, 1 Pet. 2. 2. even new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word: if spiritual life be in you, you know how to expound that Scripture,