The Method of Grace, Index – Advertisement
An Alphabetical Table of the principal points insisted on in this Treatise.
A.
ABortives Spiritual whence they are. pag. 369
Absurdity of Believers sins. p. 39
Accounts of our time kept in Heaven. p. 57
Accusations of Conscience, what they are. p. 186
Acts of the Spirit sixfold in Conversion. p. 197
Acceptation with God, what it is. p. 311
Acceptation with God, what it includes. ibid.
Acceptance, none without Christ. p. 320
Activity for the world, what it speaks. p. 352
Activity of Christ our pattern. p. 507
Adventures of Faith how great. p. 82, 83
Advocate none like Christ in five respects. p. 256
Affections how bewitcht by sin. p. 394
Ambassadors of Christ their dignity. p. 48
Application what it imports. p. 5, 6
Application of Christ the end of Ordinances. p. 7
Application of Christ of equal latitude with Gods election and Christs death. p. 9
Apologies cut off from Gospel-despisers. p. 57
Approbation of Christ implied in faith. p. 119
A…ointing how it teacheth p. 139
Alsufficiency of Christ for all our wants. p. 196
Altogether lovely, Christ only so. p. 250
Apostasie an inexcusable sin. p. 332.
Annihilation better than damnation. p. 444
Arminians sense of Justification rejected. p. 132
Assent implyed in saving Faith. p. 117
Assent three degrees thereof. ibid.
Assent how discovered to be true. p. 140
Aversion from God how discovered. p. 84
Awakening out of security, how great a mercy it is to the souls of men. p. 356
B.
BAcksliding an inexcusable sin. p. 213.
Benefits of Christ how conveyed to us. p. 13.
Believers more than know themselves so. p. 138
Believers why uncomfortable. p. 139
Believing the immediate duty of weary souls. p. 204
Believers advancement how great. p. 281
Boldness of Saints in Prayer. p. 313
Blood of Christ its dignity. p. 301
Beauty of holiness very great. p. 385
Believers their general assembly. p. 338
Believers undergo two changes. p. 335
Believers have Christ for their Altar. p. 316
Believers should have a free spirit. p. 332
Believers in what manner brought to God. p. 338
Bodies of sinners how smitten by death. p. 536
Blindness of mind what it is. p. 569
Blindness-spiritual what it includes. p. 571
Blindness-spiritual what it excludes. p. 570
Blindness of mind evidenced six ways. p. 574
Blinding artifices of Satan, what. ibid.
Burdensom nature of sin opened. p. 185
Burden of sin why it must be felt. p. 191
C.
CAre of Christians over Christs honour. p. 28…
Carnal relations admonished. p. 85
Charity to Saints strongly urged. p. 37, 38
Causes of spiritual life twofold. p. 532
Christ transcendent in holiness. p. 500
Christians no troublers of the world. p. 476
Christ outbids all other offerers. p. 74
Christ the mercy of mercies. p. 234
Christ eight things in him attractive. p. 154
Christ communicates all blessings to us. p. 172
Christ makes hast in extremity. p. 191
Christs burden exceeding heavy. p. 185
Christ the only Physician. p. 217
Christ qualified as foretold. p. 240
Christ comprehensive of all that's lovely. p. 250.
Christ an incomparable friend. p. 257
Christ the desire of all Nations, and how. p. 264
Christ the Lord of Glory. p. 277
Christs glory twofold. p. 278
Christ the only comfort of Saints. p. 290
Christ should be precious to Saints. p. 319
Christians why void of comfort. p. 293
Circumspection how necessary. p. 588
Civility no evidence of grace. p. 449
Companions in sin to be abandoned. p. 384
Communion with Christ twofold. p. 166
Communion with Christ in what it consists. p. 167
Communion with Christ a great mysterie. p. 173
Communion with Christ admirable. p. 174
Communion with Saints how pleasant. p. 179
Compassion due to the distressed. p. 186
Coming to Christ what it includes. p. 193
Communion with God kills sin. p. 484
Conviction precedaneous to faith. p. 147
Contentation of Christ in a low estate. p. 513
Condemnation twofold. p. 542
Content pressed upon Converts. p. 23
Conversion introductive to all mercies. p. 19
Condescension of God in the Gospel. p. 50
Conversion how illustrated. p. 76
Consent included in faith. p. 120
Consolation what it is. p. 288
Consolation three kinds thereof. ibid.
Consolation three ingredien…s thereof. p. 289
Contempts of the world contemned. p. 318
Conviction the first work of the Spirit. p. 414
Congruity of divine drawings with the will of man. p. 72
Concomitants of faith what they are. p. 150
Conversion its stupendious effects. p. 86
Conscience the offices thereof. p. 186
Conscience benummed how sad. p. 189
Complaints to men fruitless. ibid.
Confidence without ground, what. p. 349.
Converts exhorted to praise. p. 371
Corruption of nature discovered. p. 8…
D.
DAmned their dreadful state opened. p. 187
Danger of refusing Christ. p. 156
Damnation how aggravated. p. 354
Danger of false confidence. ibid.
Death and deadness how differenced. p. 422
Degrees of faith the least precious. p. 142
Despair in our selves necessary. p. 147
Despair not of carnal relations. p. 87
Death how made sweet. p. 43
Death on what account dreadful. p. 189
Death of Christ its design and end. p. 336
Deliverance from sin what a mercy. p. 380
Decrees of God how executed. p. 409
Delight in God eminent in Christ. p. 509
Death spiritual what it is. p. 530
Dignity of Saints whence inferred. p. 36
Discourses of Heaven sweet in the way. p. 343
Difficulty of faith discovered. p. 137
Diseases of the soul what they are. p. 217
Directions about faith six. p. 159
Directions to inflame desires. p. 273
Discouragements in godliness unreasonable. p. 387
Divine authority of Scriptures. p. 364
Dominion of sin cured by Christ. p. 219
Dominion of sin destroyed in Saints. p. 327
Dominion of sin wherein it consists. p. 461
Drawings of God what they are. p. 71
Drawings of God opened five ways. p. 73
Duties no evidences of grace. p. 450
Desires after Christ examined. p. 270
Desires after Christ include blessings. ibid.
Dejections of Saints groundless. p. 344
E.
EFficacy of the Gospel how great. p. 358
Efficacy of preaching whence it is. p. 55
End of the new Creature twofold. p. 435
English preaching its encomium. p. 560
Embryo's spiritual what they are. p. 370
Enjoyment of God mans chief good. p. 337
Enemies to souls who are so. p. 355
Engagements to obedience what. p. 561
Engage not sin in our own strength. p. 486
Esteem nothing lovely but Christ. p. 259
Eyes opened two ways. p. 585
Evidences of spiritual death. p. 531
Evidences of persons unreconciled. p. 61
Evidences of carnal security. p. 350
Evidences of the power of the word. p. 359
Evidences of the Spirit in us. p. 415
Evidences of mortification. p. 469, 492
Extent of Christs Kingdom large. p. 265
Expectations of wrath terrible. p. 187
Examples motives to faith. p. 198
Expectation implied in faith. p. 195
Experiences of others relieving. p. 190
Examples useful in mortification. p. 491
Examples of the world not to be imitated. p. 587
F.
FAith its subject, act, and enemies. p. 79
Faith considered two ways. p. 128
Faith whether in two faculties. p. 120
Faith its encomium above other graces. p. 129
Faith justifies not as a work. p. 132
Faith justifies as an applying instrument. p. 133.
Faith precious in the least degree. p. 144
Faith of Papists an absurd faith. p. 145
Faith its Antecedents, Concomitants and Consequents. p. 146
Faith is not the souls rest. p. 207
Faith how great a mercy to men. p. 546
Faith its instrumentality in mortification. p. 483
Fall of Adam how aggravated. p. 51
False joy the only joy of carnal men. p. 350
False joy twofold. p. 351
Fears of death how cured. p. 209
Fellowship with Christ our dignity. p. 163.
Fellowship with Christ not natural. p. 171
Fellowship of Saints advantageous. p. 478
Filth of sin what, and how removed. p. 208
Folly of self-righteousness. p. 226
Following Christ the Saints duty. p. 344
Free-grace and full satisfaction consistent. p. 53.
Freedom from the rigour of the Law. p. 326
Freedom from guilt what a priviledge. ibid.
Freedom from the first Covenant. p. 409
Frustration of the Gospel how. p. 354
Fulness of Christs saving power. p. 383
G.
GEnerality of men in the way to Hell. p. 3…6
Gifts of the Spirit twofold. p. 407
Gifts no evidences of Grace. p. 450
Glory of the Saints will be very great. p. 282
Gospels strange success whence is is. p. 396
Gospel an invaluable mercy. p. 365
Gospel why so unsuccessful. p. 355
Gospel Embassy what it implies. p. 47, 48
Gospel why ineffectual to men. p. 87
Gospels scope to bring men to believe. p. 131
Gospel its power to awaken men. p. 360
Gospel its enlightning efficacy. ibid.
Gospel its wounding power. p. 361
Gospel how it turns the heart. ibid.
Gospel its power not in it self. p. 362
Gospel efficacy not in the instrument. ibid.
Gospel in every part presses mortification. p. 466
Gospel boundaries must be preserved. p. 467
Grace the riches of it in remission. p. 302
Grace the vile abuse of it taxed. p. 306
Grieving the Spirit the sin of Believers. p. 411
Guilt incurred in times of tentation. p. 560
Guilt only relieved by blood of Christ. p. 208
H.
HAbits of Grace inspired, not acquired. p. 96
Habitude of faith to Gospel terms. p. 121
Happy estate of pardoned souls. p. 303
Happiness of Saints above all men. p. 338
Harmony of the Spirits motions. p. 412
Habits of grace how assisted. p. 469
Hell torments how aggravated. p. 187
Heart its deceitfulness opened. p. 369
Heavenly mindedness what it infers. p. 418
Heaven no Heaven to the unregenerate. p. 440
Heavenly mindedness connotes grace. p. 453
Honour of religion on what it depends. p. 482
Hour of death by what sweetned. p. 483
Holiness of Christ our pattern. p. 501
Holiness of Christ sixfold. p. 502
Humility of Christ exemplary. p. 512
Hypocrisie wherein it lies. p. 490
Hypocrites are twice dead. p. 536
Husband none like Christ. p. 255
I.
IGnorance the cause of security. p. 351
Ignorance twofold. p. 420
Immortality the priviledge of grace. p. 37
Impossibility of coming without drawing. p. 70
Imputed righteousness vindicated. p. 130
Illumination antecedent to faith. p. 147
Implantation into Christ necessary. p. 461
Impossibility of salvation to some. p. 395
Inoffensive life of Christ. p. 511
Joy of Saints a rational joy. p. 331
Inexcusableness of Christ-despisers. p. 19
Infusion of spiritual life instantaneous. p. 101
Inability of nature to produce grace. p. 105
Inheritance of Saints how secured. p. 178
Interest in Christ how evinced. p. 180
Invitations of Christ to weary souls. p. 198
Inherence of sin when, and how cured. p. 220
Inferiour things should not satisfie Saints. p. 243
Interest in Christ the ground of peace. p. 204
Inward troubles infest the best hearts. p. 325
Inability to return to God discovered. p. 337
Influence of Christs death into our glory. p. 340
Ineffectualness of the word a sore judgement. p. 365
Indisposedness of man to come to Christ. p. 394
Incongruity of carnal ways to Saints. p. 448
Instrumentality for service whence. p. 480
Insupportableness of affliction to some. p. 482
Imitation of Christ how necessary. p. 497
Imitation of Christ what it compriseth. ibid.
Improve Christ to your own rest. p. 214
Justification evidenced by sanctification. p. 500
Justice unsatisfied bars Heaven. p. 337
K.
KEep the evil of sin in your eye p. 488
Keep the sufferings of Christ before you ibid.
Keep the sufferings of the damned before you p. 490
Knowledge of spiritual things twofold p. 139
Knowledge of interest a ground of peace p. 289
Knowledge spiritual excellent p. 397
Knowledge of the creatures vanity p. 485
Knowledge aggravates sin three ways p. 557
Knowledge secures none from Hell p. 559
Knowledge improved against Knowledge p. 579
L.
LAw its efficacy on the Conscience p. 185
Lamentations for the unregenerate p. 537
Learned men why Christless p. 395
Leadings of the Spirit what p. 419
Lessons twelve taught by God p. 378
Life spiritual what it is p. 95
Life spiritual its excellency p. 96
Life spiritual still growing p. 98
Life spiritual in all the faculties p. 100
Life Natural, Political, Theological p. 108
Life of Believers how comfortable p. 296
Liberty purchased by Christ p. 323
Liberty of six sorts p. 328
Liberty of Believers wonderful p. 329
Liberty of Believers its properties p. 330
Liberty must be maintained p. 333
Liberty a motive to come to Christ p. 334
Loveliness of Christ in all respects p. 255
Longing to be with Christ its ground p. 285
Love of Christ wonderful p. 280
Loveliness of creatures derivative p. 250
Lovely nothing is so in opposition to Christ p. 251
M.
MAnner of the Spirits work various p. 413
Marks of right inward troubles p. 191
Marks of saving faith p. 149
Marks of the new creature p. 451
Matter of duty no evidence of grace p. 412
Means of mortification p. 462
Mediums of communion with Christ p. 172
Mediocrity in outwards eligible p. 477
Meeting of Saints in Heaven joyful p. 339
Meltings in duty twofold p. 421
Memory of sins past how revived p. 185
Method of cure a restraint from sin p. 225
Mercy to be under Christs cure p. 227
Mercies of two sorts p. 233
Mercy, Christ is the mercy of mercy evidenced in twelve respects p. 23…
Mercies derive their sweetness, … and durableness from Christ p. 215
Mercy not to be expected out of Christ p. 241
Ministry removed a sore judgement p. 49
Ministers obliged to faithfulness ibid.
Ministers unduely treated p. 58
Ministers must mind their own estates p. 59
Mirth of unregenerate groundless p. 548
Mind influenced by God p. 392
Mortification painful work p. 463
Motions of sin in the best Saints p. 325
Motives to faith p. 153
Motives ten to inflame desires p. 272
Motives six to come to Christ p. 307
Mortification proves interest in Christ p. 458
Mortification what it imports p. 459
Mortification why called crucifying p. 463
Mortification the method of salvation p. 466
Mortification requires affliction p. 474
Motives to imitate Christ p. 521
Mysterious way of regeneration p. 99
N.
NAtures pride in what discovered p. 81
Natures current cross to Christ p. 80
Natural and spiritual affections h… they may be distinguished p. 421
National rejection of Christ danger… p. 268
Necessity of divine teachings p. 390
Necessity of mortification p. 465
Necessity of the new Creature p. 439
New creature consists in two things p. 405
New creature proves interest in Christ p. 429
New creature, why grace is so called ibid.
New creation in what it resembles the old, opened in many respects p. 430
New Christians are so in three respects p. 432
New creature exceeding beautiful p. 434
New creature its designation p. 4…5
New creature immortal, and how so p. 497
New creature its heavenly tendency p. 437
New creature its activity p. 438
New creature in whom undiscernible p. 447
Number of real Christians small p. 475
O.
OBedience the end of spiritual life p. 101
Obedience whence its excellency p. 102
Obedience of Christ our pattern p. 504
Obedience to the law as our rule p. 324
Object formal of faith what it is p. 118
Obstacles to glory how removed p. 340
Object of faith must be determinate p. 194
Objections against believing answered p. 200
Occasions not to be given to corruption p. 474
Occasions of sin must be cut off p. 485
Offers of Christ what they include p. 155
Offer of Christ intire and compleat p. 122
Offer of Christ in what manner p. 123
Offices of Christ how suitable p. 253
Opinions about faith divers p. 132
Opposition of Satan to the Gospel, why p. 333
Operations of the Gospel various p. 360
Opposition of flesh and spirit what p. 424
Opposition to sin twofold p. 468
Opinions justly rejected p. 477
Ornaments of nature what, and how to be denied for Christ p. 81
Ordinances why to be attended p. 89
Outward troubles how cured p. 222
Oyl of gladness what it notes p. 164
P.
PArdon of sin how sweet p. 188
Papists how they still Conscience p. 203
Pauses made in Conversion p. 77
Penance no act of mortification p. 460
Peace, two sorts worse than trouble p. 190
Pleas for converting souls p. 21, 22
Pleasures of the spiritual life p. 97
Pleasure of sin cost dear p. 186
Physitian noue like Christ p. 223
Pledge of glory what is so p. 410
Pleasure none in carnal men p. 534
Policy of Satan in what discovered p. 283
Powers of the soul twofold p. 405
Power of sin gradually weakened p. 462
Propositions about applying Christ p. 6, 7, 8
Persecutors warned of danger p. 42
Presumption falsely pretended p. 200
Presumption a general sin p. 350
Prayer how prevalent p. 314
Prayers of Saints desirable p. 316
Prayer evidential of the Spirit p. 417
Prayerless persons unregenerate p. 453
Probabilities of mercy incourage p. 388
Proper sins to be especially eyed p. 487
Principles of mortification what p. 467
Promises of temporals how secured p. 246
Practical nature of Gods teaching p. 399
Purity of Conscience how needful p. 484
Purposes accepted by God p. 315
Q.
QUalifications of Ministers p. 63
Qualities of the new creature p. 434
Quickning of two sorts p. 94
Quickning the Spirits work in order to union with Christ p. 93
Quickning a supernatural work p. 103
Quietness of men what it argues p. 353
R.
REconciliation with God what p. 51
Reconciliation wonderful p. 52
Readiness in God to grant prayer p. 313
Receiving Christ the vital act p. 115
Receiving Christ what it improts p. 116
Remission the Saints priviledge p. 299
Remission what it is p. 300
Remission none without Christ p. 305
Reconciled persons their duties p. 66
Renovation of nature p. 430
Regenerate their duties p. 445
Religion precise and strict p. 499
Religion fal…y charged p. 518
Represent Christ as he is p. 260
Respect due to Ministers, and why p. 48
Reluctance of nature how cured p. 76
Rest coming by faith sweet p. 203
Rest of Believers present and how p. 207
Righteousness connected with holiness p. 16
Riches of Christ how great p. 178
Right to glory Christs purchase p. 341
Rome shall feel the force of prayer p. 317
Rods of affliction the Saints lot p. 325
Rules of two sorts p. 498
Rules to discern the spirit in us p. 411
Rule, no man a rule to others p. 498
S.
SAints have real communion with Christ p. 165
Saints honourable on what account p. 175
Satans great design opened p. 211
Satisfaction none short of glory p. 342
Satans power destroyed, and how p. 327
Satans policy wherein seen p. 368
Selfishness an odious sin p. 176
Secrets of God opened to Saints p. 314
Skill bred by experience what p. 193
Signs of divine teaching p. 398
Sins evil not seen at first p. 378
Sin is long a dying in the best p. 464
Sin yields neither profit nor pleasure p. 489
Sin against the Spirit mistaken p. 200
Sins of Believers most piercing p. 319
Sound of the Gospel sweet p. 202
Sorrows of the soul not quickly over p. 206
Souls of great value p. 341
Small things accepted by God p. 314
Small remnant in Christ p. 447
Spiritual sickness a mercy p. 201
Spirits threefold power in conversion p. 363
Spirit taken two ways p. 406
Spirit the bond of union p. 408
Spirit works arbitrarily in us p. 411
Spirit works variously in men ibid.
Sting of death pluckt out by Christ p. 328
Striving ineffectual when so p. 381
Stability the result of mortification p. 481
Success of the word to be waited for p. 110
Supports under defects of obedience p. 524
Supports under spiritual troubles what, and whence they are p. 189, 190
Sufferings for Christ honourable p. 281
Sweetness of Religion in application p. 11
Sympathy a mark of the Spirit p. 41…
Symptoms of a desperate state p. 227
T.
TEmptations not removed here p. 325
Terms on which Christ is offered p. 122
Teachings of God twofold p. 377
Teachings of God necessary p. 375
Teaching of God not opposed to mans p. 376
Teachings of God infallible p. 390
Teaching of God clear ibid.
Teachings of God permanent p. 391
Teachings of God harmonical p. 399
Tenderness of Conscience p. 492
Time of conversion in the hand of the Spirit p. 364
Time of Christs incarnation exactly agreeable to the promises p. 240
Things past, present and to come ours p. 209
Thoughts of death how sweetned p. 342
Troubles of Conscience great p. 188
Troubles for sin wean the heart p. 191
Troubles for sin prevent falls p. 192
Troubles for sin make Christ sweet ibid.
Troubles for sin tryed p. 191
Trials of our union with Christ. p. 43
Trials of spiritual life p. 111
V.
VExing the Spirit p. 489
Visions not to be expected p. 376
Unition supposed to union p. 94
Union with Christ how illustrated p. 26
Union with Christ no fancy p. 28
Union with Christ what it is not p. 30
Union mystical what it is p. 32
Union ingages to godliness p. 44
Union the ground of acceptation p. 315
Union fundamental to benefits p. 383
Unregenerate in a sad state p. …, 110
Unbelief unreasonable p. 17
Unreconciled exhorted p. 65
Unbelief the damning sin p. 136
Unbelief the root of ingratitude p. 212
Unworthiness no bar to faith p. 245
Unbelievers their sad estate p. 294
Unbelievers under condemnation p. 541
Unbelief the evil thereof p. 543
Voluntary motions of souls to Christ p. 194
Voyce of God never heard by some p. 400
Upbraidings of Conscience what p. 187
Usefulness of the Law is great p. 204
W.
WAnts relieved by union with Christ p. 40
Wants of Saints provided for p. 176
Want of outwards quietly born p. 244
Wants not to be feared p. 318
Willingness to dye what it signifies in carnal men p. 353
Will how allured by God p. 393
Workings of the word when slight p. 368
World its damping efficacy p. 369
Work of grace supernatural p. 445
Work of new creatures what p. 4…4
Wonderful preservation of grace p. 438
Wrath due to sin how great p. 379
Z.
ZEal in wicked men dangerous Zeal improved against Zeal p. 580
FINIS.
This Author hath writ the several Books following.
A Saint indeed, the great work of a Christian, opened and pressed from Prov. 4. 23. a seasonable Discourse for recovery of decayed godliness.
A Touch-stone of Sincerity, or signs of Grace and symptoms of Hypocrisie, being the Second Part of the Saint Indeed.
Husbandry Spiritualized, or the Heavenly use of Earthly things.
The Seamans Compass spiritually improved.
The Seamans Companion, wherein the mysteries of Divine Providence relating to Seamen are opened, the sins and dangers discovered, their duties pressed, their several troubles and burdens opened and profitably applied.
Divine Conduct, or the Mystery of Providence, its Being and Efficacy asserted and vindicated: all the methods of Providence in our course of life opened, with directions how to apply and improve them.
A Token for Mourners or, Boundaries for Sorrow on death of Friends.
The Fountain of life opened, or a display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory, wherein the impetration of our redemption by Christ is unfolded, as it was begun, carried on and finished.
These following Books lately Printed.
HEavenly and Earthly mindedness in two Parts, with an Appendix about laying hold on Eternal Life.
The Life and Death of Mr. John Row of Credditon in Devon.
Emanuel, or the love of Christ, explicated and applied in his incarnation, being made under the Law; and his satisfaction in 31 Sermons, all three by Mr. John Row, Minister of Gods word.
Christs power over bodily diseases, by Edward Lawrance, now Minister of the Gospel in London.
The Saints nearness to God, by Richard Vines, Minister of the Gospel.
Of Idolatry, a Discourse, in which is endeavoured a declaration of its distinction from superstition, by Tho. Tenison Dr. in Divinity and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty.
FINIS.
End of the text · John Flavel, The Method of Grace (1681)