A39669:1795
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Inference 1.
Is this the life that the unregenerate world lives? then it is not to be wondered at, that the preaching of the Gospel hath so 1little success: who hath believed our report (saith the Prophet) and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Isai. 53. 1. Ministers study for truths apt to awaken and convince the Consciences of them that hear them, but their words return again to them: they turn to God and mourn over the matter, we have laboured in vain, and spent our strength for nought; and this is the cause of all security; and vain hopes bar fast the doors of mens hearts against all the convictions and persuasions of the word: the greater cause have they to admire the grace of God, who have or shall find the convictions of the word sharper than any two-edged Sword, piercing to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit: to whose hearts God brings home the Commandment by an effectual application.
Is this the life that the unregenerate world lives? then it is not to be wondered at, that the preaching of the Gospel hath so 1little success: who hath believed our report (saith the Prophet) and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Isai. 53. 1. Ministers study for truths apt to awaken and convince the Consciences of them that hear them, but their words return again to them: they turn to God and mourn over the matter, we have laboured in vain, and spent our strength for nought; and this is the cause of all security; and vain hopes bar fast the dores of mens hearts against all the convictions and perswasions of the word: the greater cause have they to admire the grace of God, who have or shall find the convictions of the word sharper than any two-edged Sword, piercing to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit: to whose hearts God brings home the Commandment by an effectual application.