A39669:945
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.
Infer. 4.
Then certainly no man is or can be supposed to be a loser by conversion, seeing from that day whatever Christ is or hath becomes 1his.
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O what an inheritance are men possessed of by their new birth! Some men cry out, Religion will undo you, but with what eyes do these men see? surely you could never so reckon, except your souls were so incarnated as to reckon pardon, peace, adoption, holiness and heaven for nothing: that invisibles are non-entities, and temporals the only realities. 'Tis true, the converted soul may lose his estate, his liberty, yea, his life for Christ: but what then? are they ⟨p. 178⟩losers that exchange Brass for Gold? or part with their present comforts for an hundredfold advantage, Mark 10. 29. So that none need scare at religion for the losses that attend it, whilst Christ and heaven is gained by it: they that count religion their loss, have their portion in this life.
O what an inheritance are men possessed of by their new birth! Some men cry out, Religion will undo you, but with what eyes do these men see? surely you could never so reckon, except your souls were so incarnated as to reckon pardon, peace, adoption, holiness and heaven for nothing: that invisibles are non-entities, and temporals the only realities. 'Tis true, the converted soul may lose his estate, his liberty, yea, his life for Christ: but what then? are they