A39669:1620
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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Fourthly, The free discoveries of the secrets of Gods heart to Believers▪ speaks them to be his special favourites: men open not the counsels and secrets of their own hearts to enemies or strangers, but to their most inward and intimate friends: The secret of the Lord is-with them that fear him, and he will show them his Covenant, Psal. 25. 14. When God was about to destroy Sodom, he will do nothing in that work of judgement till he had acquainted Abraham, his friend, with his purpose therein, Gen. 18. 17. And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? for I know him, &c. So when a King was to be elected for Israel, and the person whom God had chosen, was yet unknown to the people, God as it were whispered that secret unto Samuel the day before, 1 Sam. 9. 15. Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came: according to the manner of Princes with some special favourite.
Fourthly, The free discoveries of the secrets of Gods heart to Believers▪ speaks them to be his special favourites: men open not the counsels and secrets of their own hearts to enemies or strangers, but to their most inward and intimate friends: The secret of the Lord is-with them that fear him, and he will shew them his Covenant, Psal. 25. 14. When God was about to destroy Sodom, he will do nothing in that work of judgement till he had acquainted Abraham, his friend, with his purpose therein, Gen. 18. 17. And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? for I know him, &c. So when a King was to be elected for Israel, and the person whom God had chosen, was yet unknown to the people, God as it were whispered that secret unto Samuel the day before, 1 Sam. 9. 15. Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came: according to the manner of Princes with some special favourite.