A39669:1833
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 1.
Is there such a mighty power in the word, then certainly the word is of divine authority: there cannot be a more clear, and 1satisfying proof, that it is no humane invention, than the common sense that all Believers have of the almighty power in which it works upon their hearts: so speaks the Apostle, 1. Thes. 2. 13. When ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of man, but (as it is in truth) the word of God; which effectually worketh also in you that believe. Can the power of any creature, the word of a mere man, so convince the Conscience, so terrify the heart, so discover the very secret thoughts of the soul, put a man into such tremblings? No, no, a greater than man must needs ⟨p. 365⟩be here: none but a God can so open the eyes of the blind, so open the graves of the dead, so quicken and enliven the Conscience that was seared, so bind over the soul of a sinner to the judgement to come, so change and alter the frame and temper of a mans spirit, so powerfully raise, refresh and comfort a drooping dying soul. Certainly the power of God is in all this; and if there were no more, yet this alone were sufficient to make full proof of the divine authority of the Scriptures.
Is there such a mighty power in the word, then certainly the word is of divine authority: there cannot be a more clear, and 1satisfying proof, that it is no humane invention, than the common sense that all Believers have of the almighty power in which it works upon their hearts: so speaks the Apostle,