A39669:1101
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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Inference 7.
It's the immediate duty of weary and heavy laden sinners to 1come to Christ by faith, and not stand off from Christ, or delay to accept him upon any pretence whatsoever.
- 1Inference 7.
Christ invites and commands such to come unto him, 'tis therefore your sin to neglect, draw back, or defer, whatever seeming reasons and pretences there may be to the contrary. When the Jailer was brought (where I suppose thee now to be) to a pinching distress that made him cry, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? the very next counsel the Apostles gave him, was, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, Acts 16. 30, 31. And for your encouragement ⟨p. 205⟩know, he that calleth you to come, knows your burden, what your sins have been, and troubles are, yet he calls you: if your sin hinder not Christ from calling, neither should it hinder you from coming. He that calls you, is able to ease you; to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him, Heb. 7. 25. Whatever fullness of sin be in you, there is a greater fullness of saving power in Christ. Moreover, he that calls you to come, never yet rejected any poor burdened soul that came to him: and hath said he never will,