A39669:873
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.
Direction 2.
Secondly, See that you receive not Christ for a present shift, 1but for your everlasting portion: many do so, they will enquire after Christ, pray for Christ, cast themselves (in their way) upon Christ, and the satisfaction of his blood; when the efficacy and terror of conscience is upon them; and they feel the sting of guilt within them: but as soon as the storm is over, and the rod that conscience shak't over them laid by; there's no more talk of Christ then: alas, it was not Christ but quietness that they sought: beware of mistaking peace for Christ.
Secondly, See that you receive not Christ for a present shift, 1but for your everlasting portion: many do so, they will enquire after Christ, pray for Christ, cast themselves (in their way) upon Christ, and the satisfaction of his blood; when the efficacy and terrour of conscience is upon them; and they feel the sting of guilt within them: but assoon as the storm is over, and the rod that conscience shak't over them laid by; there's no more talk of Christ then: alas, it was not Christ but quietness that they sought: beware of mistaking peace for Christ.
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