A39669:2555
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.
Thirdly, Condemnation is the final sentence of God, the Supreme Judge, from whose Bar and Judgment there lies no appeal for the unbeliever, but Execution certainly follows Condemnation, Luke 19. 27. If man condemn, God may justify, and save: But if God condemn, no man can save or deliver. If the law cast a man as a sinner, the Gospel may save him as a believer: But if the Gospel cast him as an unbeliever, a man that finally rejects Jesus Christ whom it offers to him; all the world cannot save that man. O then what a dreadful word is Condemnation! All the evils and miseries of this life are nothing to it: put all afflictions, calamities, sufferings, and miseries of this world into one scale, and this sentence of God into the other, and they will all be lighter than a feather.
Thirdly, Condemnation is the final sentence of God, the Supream Judge, from whose Bar and Judgment there lies no appeal for the unbeliever, but Execution certainly follows Condemnation, Luke 19. 27. If man condemn, God may justifie, and save: But if God condemn, no man can save or deliver. If the law cast a man as a sinner, the Gospel may save him as a believer: But if the Gospel cast him as an unbeliever, a man that finally rejects Jesus Christ whom it offers to him; all the world cannot save that man. O then what a dreadful word is Condemnation! All the evils and miseries of this life are nothing to it: put all afflictions, calamities, sufferings, and miseries of this world into one scale, and this sentence of God into the other, and they will all be lighter than a feather.
Thirdly, In the next place, I shall show you that this punishment, viz. Condemnation, must unavoidably follow that sin of unbelief. So many unbelieving persons as be in the world, so many condemned persons there are in the world, and this will appear two ways.
Thirdly, In the next place, I shall shew you that this punishment, viz. Condemnation, must unavoidably follow that sin of unbelief. So many unbelieving persons as be in the world, so many condemned persons there are in the world, and this will appear two ways.