A39669:1626
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 2.
If Believers be such favourites in Heaven, in what a desperate 1condition is that Cause, and those Persons against whom the generality of Believers are daily engaged in prayers and cries to Heaven?
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Certainly Rome shall feel the dint and force of the many millions of prayers that are gone up to Heaven from the Saints for many generations: the cries of the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus, joined with the cries of thousands of Believers will bring down vengeance at last upon the Man of sin. 'Tis said, Rev. 8. 4, 5, 6. That the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the Saints, ascended up before God out of the Angels hand: and immediately it is added, vers. 5. And the Angel took the Censer, and filled it with fire of the Altar, and cast it into the earth, and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and earth-quakes, and the seven Angels, which had the seven Trumpets, prepared themselves to sound. The prayer of a single Saint is sometimes followed with wonderful effects, Psal. 18. 6, 7. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his Temple, and my cry came before him even into his ears: then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved, and were shaken because he was wroth: what then can a thundering legion of such praying souls do! It was said of Luther, iste vir potuit cum Deo quicquid voluit, that man could have of God what he would, his enemies felt the weight of his prayers, and the Church of God reaped the benefits thereof. The Queen of Scots professed she was more afraid of the Prayers of Mr. Knox, than of an army of ten thousand men: these were mighty wrestlers with God, howsoever