A39669:1926
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.
But under all these discouragements the soul learns this Lesson from God, that as ungodly as it is, as weak and impotent as it is, as full of fears and doubts as it is: nevertheless it is every way its great duty and concernment to go on in the way of faith, and make that great adventure of it self upon Jesus Christ: and of this the Lord convinceth the soul by two things.
viz. 1. From the absolute necessity of coming. 2. From the encouraging probabilities of speeding.
viz. 1. From the absolute necessity of coming. 2. From the incouraging probabilities of speeding.
First, The soul seeth an absolute necessity of coming; necessity ⟨p. 388⟩is laid upon it, there is no other way, Acts. 4. 12. God hath shut it up by a blessed necessity to this only door of escape, Gal. 3. 23. damnation lies in the neglect of Christ, Heb. 2. 3. The soul hath no choice in this case, Angels, Ministers, duties, repentance, reformation cannot save me, Christ, and none but Christ can deliver me from present guilt and the wrath to come: why do I dispute, demur, delay, when certain ruin must inevitably follow the neglect or refusal of Gospel offers?
First, The soul seeth an absolute necessity of coming; necessity ⟨p. 388⟩