A39669:2633
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.
DOCT.
That the understandings of all unbelievers are blinded by Satan's policies, in order to their everlasting perdition.
That the understandings of all unbelievers are blinded by Satans policies, in order to their everlasting perdition.
Four things must be opened in the Doctrinal part of this point.
First, what the blinding of the understanding or hiding of the Gospel from the understanding is.
Secondly, I shall demonstrate that the understandings of many are thus blinded, and the Gospel hidden from them.