and the most accomplished and virtuous Lady, his dear Consort, the Author wishes Grace, Mercy, and Peace. - by William Cooper, How Faith Prepares The Soul For Christ - by Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680), How God's People May Make Great Attainments - by William Plumer (1802-1880), How May We Know Whether We Love God? “They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.” Jeremiah 6:14. If you do not believe this, you do not believe your Bibles. The first word he said was, ‘Peace be unto you;’ he showed them his hands and his side, and said, ‘Peace be unto you.’ It is as much as if he had said, Fear not, my disciples; see my hands and my feet how they have been pierced for your sake; therefore fear not. John 6: 44 Our last discourse informed you of the usefulness and influence of the preaching of the gospel, in order to the application of But then, before you can speak peace to your souls, there is one particular sin you must be greatly troubled for, and yet I fear there are few of you think what it is; it is the reigning, the damning sin of the Christian world, and yet the Christian world seldom or never think of it. My dear friends, there must be a principle wrought in the heart by the Spirit of the living God. Did you ever experience any such thing as this? Were you ever in all your life sorry for your sins? The indwelling of sin in the heart is the burden of a converted person; it is the burden of a true Christian. If any of you are willing to be reconciled to God, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is willing to be reconciled to you. If you were ever truly convicted, if your hearts were ever truly cut, if self were truly taken out of you, you would be made to see and feel this. The Method of Grace. But, indeed, when you come to judgment, you will find what I say is true, either to your eternal damnation or comfort. Our best duties are as so many splendid sins. The Method of Grace Paperback – September 1, 1997 by John Flavel (Author) › Visit Amazon's John Flavel Page. There are new books published every month. Did you ever feel and experience this, any of you—to justify God in your damnation—to own that you are by nature children of wrath, and that God may justly cut you off, tho you never actually had offended Him in all your life? This is what I design at present, that I may deliver my soul, that I may be free from the blood of all those to whom I preach—that I may not fail to declare the whole counsel of God. I cannot think you should go to hell without Christ. The Method of Grace. Did you ever close with Christ by a lively faith, so as to feel Christ in your hearts, so as to hear him speaking peace to your souls? If you are not thus brought out of self, you may speak peace to yourselves, but yet there is no peace. And may you have no rest in your souls till you rest in Jesus Christ! It is matter, therefore, of great importance,my dear hearers, to know whether we may speak peace to our hearts. Taken from his own Mouth, and published at the earn- Shed, The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer and Humiliation for Sin - by Arthur Hildersham (1563-1632), The Doctrine of Hell - by Thomas Boston (1676-1732), The Duty of Every Believer to Join a Church by Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Eschatological Mastery of the World & Meditation - by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon, The Eschatological Mastery of the World & the Bible - by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon, The Eschatological Mastery of the World - by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon, The Eschatological Mastery of the World and Prayer - by Dr. C. 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And, therefore, if you never felt this inward corruption, if you never saw that God might justly curse you for it, indeed, my dear friends, you may speak peace to your hearts, but I fear, nay, I know, there is no true peace. There are no other workbooks like these anywhere that will help you work through the best biblical theology. Fear not ye, my dear brethren, you are happy souls; you may lie down and be at peace indeed, for God hath given you peace; you may be content under all the dispensations of providence, for nothing can happen to you now, but what shall be the effect of God’s love to your soul; you need not fear what sightings may be without, seeing there is peace within. I do not know what you may think, but I can say that I cannot pray but I sin _ I cannot preach to you or any others but I sin _ I can do nothing without sin; and, as one expresseth it, my repentance wants to be repented of, and my tears to be washed in the precious blood of my dear Redeemer. My dear friends, I am more particular in this, because it is a most deceitful delusion, whereby so many people are carried away, that they believe already. Are you an author? Merely to believe there was such a person as Christ, merely to believe there is a book called the Bible, will do you no good, more than to believe there was such a man a Caesar or Alexander the Great. by Dr. R. L. Hymers, Jr. "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace" (Jeremiah 6:14). In the true classic English Puritan tradition, by an author who disgnoses the issues surrounding the eternal destiny of the soul. Such as have got peace with God, if you are under trials, fear not, all things shall work for your good; if you are under temptations, fear not, if he has spoken peace to your hearts, all these things shall be for your good. You may be all at peace, but perhaps the devil has lulled you asleep into a carnal lethargy and security, and will endeavor to keep you there till he get you to hell, and there you will be awakened; but it will be dreadful to be awakened and find yourselves so fearfully mistaken, when the great gulf is fixed, when you will be calling to all eternity for a drop of water to cool your tongue and shall not obtain it. God will not be mocked; that which a man soweth, that shall he also reap. It is true, if you are once in Christ, you cannot finally fall from God: ‘There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus;’ but if you cannot fall finally, you may fall foully, and may go with broken bones all your days. There must be a deep conviction before you can be brought out of your self-righteousness; it is the last idol taken out of our heart. I am grieved with the loose walk of those that are Christians, that have had discoveries of Jesus Christ; there is so little difference betwixt them and other people, that I scarce know which is the true Christian. I am now talking of the invisible realities of another world, of inward religion, of the work of God upon a poor sinner’s heart. These things you must experience. Away, says he, I do not find one word of the sin of unbelief in all your catalog. To the Worshipful John Upton of Lupton, Esq. But, however, I will venture to affirm this, that before ever you can speak peace to your heart, whether by shorter or longer continuance of your convictions, whether in a more pungent or in a more gentle way, you must undergo what I shall hereafter lay down in the following discourse. But if you will go on and rebel against Christ, and stab him daily _ if you will go on and abuse Jesus Christ, the wrath of God you must expect will fall upon you. As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere, and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world, is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm, and unskilled guides. Give me leave to ask you, in the presence of God, whether you know the time, and if you do not know exactly the time, do you know there was a time when God wrote bitter things against you, when the arrows of the Almighty were within you? I went perhaps farther than many of you do; I used to fast twice a-week, I used to pray sometimes nine times a-day, I used to receive the sacrament constantly every Lord’s-day; and yet I knew nothing of Jesus Christ in my heart, I knew not that I must be a new creature _ I knew nothing of inward religion in my soul. Pray, what did Jesus Christ say of his disciples, when he came to them the first day of the week? - by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon, What Is A Biblical Christian? Then, he will forgive you all your sins, he will blot out all your transgressions. The Bible is a sacred depository. Were you ever made to bewail a hard heart of unbelief? Then, unless you were sanctified very early, you never loved God in your life. O that God may bring some of you to himself! What does a genuine work of grace look like in a believer’s heart? Have you closed with Christ? Says Jesus Christ, ‘I will send the Comforter; and when he is come, he will reprove the world’ of the sin of unbelief; ‘of sin,’ says Christ, ‘because they believe not on me.’ Now, my dear friends, did God ever show you that you had no faith? 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