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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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First, It is a sin which reflects the greatest dishonour upon God. 1 John 5. 10. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record which God gave of his Son.
Secondly, Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ and the whole design of Redemption managed by him. All the glorious attributes of God were signally manifested in the work of Redemption by Christ, therefore the Apostle calls him the wisdom of God, and the power of God, 1 Cor. 1. 23, 24. But what doth the careless neglect, and wilful rejection of Christ speak, but the weakness and folly of that design of Redemption by him?
Thirdly, Unbelief includes in it the sorest spiritual judgement that is or can be inflicted in this world upon the soul of man: Even spiritual blindness, and the fatal darkening of the understanding by Satan, 2 Cor. 4. 4. of which, more hereafter.