A39669:1820
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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Secondly, It makes the soul upon which it works to forgo and quit the dearest interest it hath in this world for Jesus Christ, Phil. 3. 7, 8, 9. riches, honours, self righteousness, dearest relations are denied and forsaken: reproach, poverty and death it self are willingly embraced for Christs sake; when once the efficacy of the word hath been upon the hearts of men, 1 Thes. 1. 6. Those that were their companions in sin are declined, renounced and cast off with abhorrence, 1 Pet. 4. 3, 4. In such things as these the mighty power of the word discovers it self.
Secondly, It makes the soul upon which it works to forgo and quit the dearest interest it hath in this world for Jesus Christ, Phil. 3. 7, 8, 9. riches, honours, self righteousness, dearest relations are denied and forsaken: reproach, poverty and death it self are willingly imbraced for Christs sake; when once the efficacy of the word hath been upon the hearts of men, 1 Thes. 1. 6. Those that were their companions in sin are declined, renounced and cast off with abhorrence, 1 Pet. 4. 3, 4. In such things as these the mighty power of the word discovers it self.
Secondly, Next let us see wherein the efficacy of the word upon the souls of men principally consisteth: and we find 1in Scripture it exerteth its power in five distinct acts upon the soul; by all which it strikes at the life, and kills the very heart of vain hopes. For,