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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 therefore read not these lines with a running careless eye, but seriously ponder the matter before you: you would be loth to put to Sea, though it were but to cross the channel, in a rotten leaky bottom: and will you dare to venture into the ocean of eternity in a false rotten faith? God forbid: you know the Lord is coming to try every mans faith as by fire, and that we must stand or fall for ever with the sincerity or hypocrisy of our faith. Surely you can never be too exact and careful about that on which your whole estate depends, and that for ever.
O therefore read not these lines with a running careless eye, but seriously ponder the matter before you: you would be loth to put to Sea, though it were but to cross the channel, in a rotten leaky bottome: and will you dare to venture into the ocean of eternity in a false rotten faith? God forbid: you know the Lord is coming to try every mans faith as by fire, and that we must stand or fall for ever with the sincerity or hypocrisie of our faith. Surely you can never be too exact and careful about that on which your whole estate depends, and that for ever.
Now there are three things upon which we should have a very tender and watchful eye for the discovery of the sincerity of our faith, and they are The | Antecedents | of Faith. Concomitants Consequents
As these are, so we must judge and reckon our faith to be. And accordingly they furnish us with three general Marks or trials of faith.
As these are, so we must judge and reckon our faith to be. And accordingly they furnish us with three general Marks or tryals of faith.