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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
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 Thirty fourth SERMON.1
- 1Sermon 34.
2 COR. 4. 3, 4. 1But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are 2lost; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
- 1Text▪
- 2The blinding policies of Satan opened as the cause of unbelief, and forerunner of destruction.
The aversations of men from Jesus Christ their only remedy, is as much to be admired, as lamented: one would think the news of deliverance should make the hearts of captives leap for joy: the tidings of a Saviour should transport the heart of a lost sinner. A man would think a little Rhetoric might suffice to persuade the naked soul of a sinner to put on the rich robes of Christs righteousness, which cost him nothing but acceptance: or the perishing starving sinner to accept the bread of God which cometh down from Heaven, and giveth life unto the world. This is the great design I have managed in this whole discourse; the centre to which all these lines are drawn: many arguments have been used; and many ways attempted to prevail with men to apply and put on