A39669:190
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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Infer. 4.
What a tremendous Symptom of wrath, and sad Character of Death appears upon that mans Soul to which no effectual application 1of Christ can be made by the Gospel!
What a tremendous Symptome of wrath, and sad Character of Death appears upon that mans Soul to which no effectual application 1of Christ can be made by the Gospel!
- 1Infer. 4.
Christ with his benefits is frequently tendered to them in the Gospel, they have been beseeched once and again upon the Knee of importunity to accept him, those entreaties and persuasions have been urged by the greatest arguments, The Command of God, the love of Christ, the inconceivable happiness or misery which unavoidably follows the accepting or rejecting of those offers, and yet nothing will stick: all their pleas for infidelity have been over and over confuted, their reasons and consciences have stood convinced, they have been Speechless as well as Christless: not one sound argument is found with them to defend their infidelity: they confess in general, that such courses as theirs is, lead to destruction: they will yield them to be happy souls that are in Christ: and yet when it comes to the point, their own closing with him; nothing will stick; all arguments, all entreaties return to us without success.
Christ with his benefits is frequently tendered to them in the Gospel, they have been beseeched once and again upon the Knee of importunity to accept him, those entreaties and perswasions have been urged by the greatest arguments, The Command of God, the love of Christ, the inconceiveable happiness or misery which unavoidably follows the accepting or rejecting of those offers, and yet nothing will stick: all their pleas for infidelity have been over and over confuted, their reasons and consciences have stood convinced, they have been Speechless as well as Christless: not one sound argument is found with them to defend their infidelity: they confess in general, that such courses as theirs is, lead to destruction: they will yield them to be happy souls that are in Christ: and yet when it comes to the point, their own closing with him; nothing will stick; all arguments, all entreaties return to us without success.