A39669:1399
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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But there lies one great Objection against this truth, 1which must be satisfied, viz. if Christ be the desire of all Nations, how comes it to pass, that Jesus Christ finds no entertainment in so many Nations of the world, among whom Christianity is hissed at, and Christians not tolerated to live among them; who see no beauty in him that they should desire him.
But there lies one great Objection against this truth, 1which must be satisfied, viz. if Christ be the desire of all Nations, how comes it to pass, that Jesus Christ finds no entertainment in so many Nations of the world, among whom Christianity is hissed at, and Christians not tolerated to live among them; who see no beauty in him that they should dedesire him.
- 1Object.
First, We must remember the Nations of the World have their times and seasons of conversion. Those that 1once embraced Christ, have now lost him, and Idols are now set up in the places where he once was sweetly worshipped. The Sun of the Gospel is gone down upon them, and now shines in another Hemisphere: and so the Nations of the World are to have their distinct days, and seasons of illumination. The Gospel, like the Sea, gaineth in one place what it loseth in another: and in the times and seasons appointed by the Father they come successively to be enlightened in the knowledge of Christ; and then shall that ⟨p. 267⟩promise be fulfilled, Isai. 49. 7. Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of Rulers; Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful.