A39669:817
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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I thought once that a little repentance, reformation, restitution, and a stricter life, might be a way to escape wrath to come; but I find the bed is too short, and the covering too narrow: all is but loss, dung, dross, in comparison with Jesus Christ: if I trust to those Egyptian reeds, they will not only fail me, but pierce and wound me too. I see no hope within the whole Horizon of sense.
I thought once that a little repentance, reformation, restitution, and a stricter life, might be a way to escape wrath to come; but I find the bed is too short, and the covering too narrow: all is but loss, dung, dross, in comparison with Jesus Christ: if I trust to those Aegyptian reeds, they will not only fail me, but pierce and wound me too. I see no hope within the whole Horizon of sense.
Fourthly, Hence come vehement and earnest cries to God for faith, for Christ, for help from heaven to transport the soul out of this dangerous condition, to that strong rock of salvation: to bring it out of this furious stormy Sea of trouble where it's ready to wreck every moment, into that safe and quiet harbour Christ.
Fourthly, Hence come vehement and earnest crys to God for faith, for Christ, for help from heaven to transport the soul out of this dangerous condition, to that strong rock of salvation: to bring it out of this farious stormy Sea of trouble where it's ready to wreck every moment, into that safe and quiet harbour Christ.
O when a man shall see his misery and danger, and no way of escape but Christ, and that he hath no ability in himself to come to Christ, to open his heart thus to receive him, but that this work of faith is wholly supernatural, the operation of God; How will the soul return again and again upon God with such cries as that