A39669:1842
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.
2d Use of Exhortation.
I shall conclude this point with a few words of Exhortation to three sorts of men,1
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viz. 1. To those that never felt the power of the word. 2. To those that have only felt some slight and common effects thereof. 3. To those unto whose very hearts the Commandment is come in its effectual and saving power.
First, You that never felt any power in the word at all, I beg you in the name of him that made you, and by all the regard 1and value you have for those precious souls within you; that now at last such Considerations as these may find place in your souls; and that you will bethink your selves,
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