A39669:2565
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.
The Uses follow.
Inference 1.
If this be so, then how great a number of persons are visibly 1in the state of condemnation! so many unbelievers, so many condemned men and women. That's a sad complaint of the prophet, Isa. 53. 1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Many there be that talk of faith, and many that profess faith: but they only talk of and profess ⟨p. 546⟩it: there are but few in the world unto whom the arm of the Lord hath been revealed in the work of faith with power: 'tis put among the great mysteries and wonders of the world, 1 Tim. 3. 16. That Christ is believed on in the world. O what a great and terrible day will the day of Christs coming to judgement be, when so many Millions of unbelievers shall be brought to his Tribunal to be solemnly sentenced! They are (as my Text speaks) condemned already, but then that dreadful sentence will be solemnly pronounced by Jesus Christ, whom they have despised, and rejected: then shall that scripture be fulfilled, Luke 19. 27. These mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them, bring them hither, and slay them before me.