A39669:962
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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Secondly, In your deeper humiliation and spiritual sense of your own vileness: the more any man partakes of God, and is acquainted with him, and assimilated to him; the more base and vile in his own sight he still grows, Job 42. 5, 6. Isa. 6. 5.
Thirdly, It will appear in your more vehement longings after the full enjoyment of God in heaven, 1 Pet. 1. 8. and Rom. 8. 23. you that have the first-fruits, will groan within your selves after the full harvest, and satisfying fruition: you will not be so taken with things below, as to be content ⟨p. 181⟩with the best lot on earth for your everlasting portion. O if hese communicated drops be so sweet, what is there in Christ the fountain?
And thus I have opened the method of grace in bringing home Christ and his benefits to Gods elect by Union in order to communion with him.